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.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.

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

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

I'd rather work than not.

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.