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

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

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

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

How do you stop somebody from growing?

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