Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is

When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.

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

There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.

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.