I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.