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

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.

I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent. The most beautiful thing about Frank was that he was completely in the moment and present and eternally creative.

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.

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.

Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.