For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your fingers like a fistful of sand. Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

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

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've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.