Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.