Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

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

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.