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I was such a sponge with music.

I was a valet for celebrity parties.

'Hee Haw' was a huge influence on me.

I just love music and great guitar players.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

It's always good to go outside of your comfort zone.

I love doing instrumental records; I love doing that.

Whatever I say is so honest when I'm doing interviews.

I find the macabre fascinating; it's all over history.

You gotta go after your dreams and do it. Go and do it.

'This Is My Rifle' is a kind of tribute to Al Di Meola.

There's 24 hours in a day, and I'm working most of them.

I wanted to do this so badly, to be a successful musician.

I'm always working and recording. It's just what makes me happy.

I would love to work with a Beatle: Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr.

I love Loretta Lynn, and I love Roy Clark and Johnny Cash, everybody.

If I wasn't in the band, I'm a Zombie fan, and I'm a White Zombie fan.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

I know singers; I've worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

Being the founding member of Loser, my decision to leave was not an easy one.

I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.

In my eyes, and in my opinion, the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die.

I get starstruck... I don't know, because a lot of my heroes are my really good friends.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

I love Jimmy Bryant, and I love Albert Lee. Roy Clark. Chet Atkins. I love those pickers.

Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great.

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.

Inspiration is one of my favorite things. That's all I want to do - I want to inspire people.

I love meeting the fans, and I love shaking hands, and that's what it's all about. It really is.

I have tons of Telecasters but also about 50 Les Pauls, six or seven SGs, and a bunch of Gretsches.

I'll watch the Grammys and think, 'You hardly even see people playing guitar,' and it freaks me out.

I'm so honored that I got the best guitarist award for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards.

Branching out to other genres - I think it's why people put me apart from other guitar instrumentalists.

I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody.

When I saw Kiss, and it was monsters with guitars, I thought this was the greatest thing that ever happened.

Whenever you listen to a CD or an album, it gets tiresome hearing the same thing over and over and over again.

Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.

I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.

Steve Vai had a unique style of playing. Steve Vai didn't sound like anyone else: Steve Vai sounded like Steve Vai.

I love watching documentaries on people like 'clean freaks,' because it's just so interesting to me for some reason.

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.

I'm playing all the time. It's a gift, and I'm so happy for that gift. It's really engulfed my life in a good way. I make time.

I always look for inspiration. If I find something that's inspiring, I'm so excited because it is very hard to find something inspiring.

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.

Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,' and they're all the same tempo.

All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

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