Every song is different.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

There are all kinds of courage in the world, and most of it takes place far from battlefields.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.