The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

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

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