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

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

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 can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

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.

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.