With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.