Neal Schon Quotes

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

I'm just getting older and better.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.