When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.

I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.