I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

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.

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 think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.