We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.