When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking about technique or anything like that and just trying to evoke the emotion of that song brings, which is a very strong emotion for me.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.

I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.

If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.