I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.