A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.