A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.

I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.