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

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

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 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've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.