Being out of tune sucks.
I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.
I ain't the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've dedicated my life to music since I was 7 and my dad bought me a guitar and the 'Meet the Beatles' album.
When you're young, you can burn the candle at both ends, and you're fine.
In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.
In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age.
Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.
I really try to play to my strengths, man. I'm never going to be Guthrie Govan: he's a brilliant player.
When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.
I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
I wish I had perfect pitch, but I don't, and thanks to the miracle of YouTube, a bad night lives forever!
I've never stopped working, and I still have 'pinch me' moments all the time.
We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.
Everything we got was never given to us.
There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.
I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get tendonitis, which is not cool.
There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.
I listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot.
I'm a weird guy with a weird sense of humor.
I love to create and play, I can't stop, hahaha!
