The tours are campaigns.

You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

My spirit is bent and there's blood on my hands, the more I'm down, the less I understand.

If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.