If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

Hard work is what keeps the ship moving.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.