I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.