For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.

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

The best money I made was panhandling.

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

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.

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

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.