Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.

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.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

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