My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

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.

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

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.