Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.
You couldn't make a Steve Vai. That's a one-in-a-billion type of personality that comes out together with an incredible talent facility. You grow it; you help them grow it. Hopefully, it matures, and they don't hit any roadblocks along the way.
When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their best version.
On every album you can see my growth.
I was talented at a young age, but I still had to grow and develop further.
I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
As I'm growing, so is my music.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
