It's Always About The Music, Never About

And If I Would Have Taken Lessons I Probably Wouldn't Have Done It, And What Forced Me To Do All This Weird Stuff On The Guitar Was I Couldn't Afford Effects Pedals, I Didn't Have All This Stuff When I Was A Kid So I Just Tried To Squeeze All The Weird Noises I Could Out Of The Guitar, Which Brings Me To Building Guitars.

If Your Going To Learn To Play Lead Guitar, Get An Electric Guitar .. It Doesn't Have To Be An Expensive One .. Acoustic Guitars Aren't Good For Learning Lead, Because You Can't Play Up Very High On The Neck And They Take Heavier-gauge Strings Which Makes It Hard To Bend Notes

Holdsworth Is So Damned Good That I Can't Cop Anything. I Can't Understand What He's Doing. I've Got To Do This [does Two-hand Tapping], Whereas He'll Do It With One Hand.

It's Always A Catch-22 Situation. They Hate You If You're The Same, And They Hate You If You're Different.

On 'van Halen,' I Was A Young Punk, And Everything Revolved Around The Fastest Kid In Town, Gunslinger Attitude. But I'd Say That At The Time Of 'fair Warning,' I Started Concentrating More On Songwriting. But I Guess In Most People's Minds I'm Just A Gunslinger.