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

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

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