I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.