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.

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

I can't do anything but play guitar.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

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 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'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.