The world treats beautiful people like they're good at something, which makes it so that they almost never get good at something.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
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.
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.
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.
I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
My parents are definitely reformed hippies.
I'm a complete and utter busker.