I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.