“Nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period.”

Over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

Digital for storage and quickness.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

King Crimson is never easy; it’s challenging. That’s why I like it.

I love drums and still play frequently.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster.

Someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

Currently I’m working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.

And taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

Yes, but don’t forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me.

I’ve developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines.

I’ve got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I’m starting to enter my prime.

They didn’t have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.

The path we’re on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don’t try to get too big.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.