LP Quotes

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Any good music must be an innovation.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.