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

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.

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

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.

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

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