Nirvana Was Huge, But It Didn't Appeal

The Stainless-steel Frets Were A Major Breakthrough, Because Of The Amount Of Playing And Bending That I Do. I Have To Get My Guitars Refretted Every Couple Of Months.

Actually, If I Could Deliberately Sit Down And Write A Pop Hit, All My Songs Would Be Pop Hits! Let's Put It This Way. I Play What I Like To Hear. And Sometimes I Like To Hear Something Poppy, And Sometimes I Don't.

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.

There Are Really Three Parts To The Creative Process. First There Is Inspiration, Then There Is The Execution, And Finally There Is The Release.

Imagine If Beethoven Had A Tape Recorder. Then You'd Know Exactly What He Meant. Maybe He Meant 'da Da Da Da' Instead Of 'boom Boom Boom Boom!' Who Knows?