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

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

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.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.