Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead