God Created A System Which

Little Ideas Can Pop Into One's Head At Any Time, And If I'm Being Reasonably Efficient I've Got It Close Enough To Hand, Then I Pop That Little Tiny Moment Of A Few Seconds Down Onto A Tape And Then I Can Forget About It For... Years Sometimes.

These Days I Don't Look To Other People With The Objective Of Trying To Steal Their Licks, Although I've Got No Objections To Stealing Them If That Seems Like A Good Idea. I'm Sure That I'm Still Influenced By Mark Knopfler And Eddie Van Halen As Well......i Can't Play Like Eddie Van Halen. I Wish I Could. I Sat Down To Try Some Of Those Ideas And Can't Do It. I Don't Know If I Could Ever Get Any Of That Stuff Together. Sometimes I Think I Should Work At The Guitar More.

Pompeii Is An Extraordinary Place To Be Because It Was Preserved Exactly As It Was. There Are Many Other Sites. If You Visit Any Other Antiquity-type Sites Throughout The World, They're Very Damaged With What's Gone On Over The Centuries Since They Were Abandoned. But This One Was Just, Like, Sealed, So You're Looking At Rock Surfaces And The Carving Of Letters And Names In The Stones Looks Like It Was Done Yesterday.

I Don't Have A Very Disciplined Approach To Practicing Or Anything, But I Do Tend To Have A Guitar Around Most Of The Time, Which I Strum On Most Of The Day.

The Old Ways Still Apply. You Can Still Send Tapes To Record Companies, And There Are Record Companies, You Know, There Are One Or Two Of The Record Companies Do Declare Proudly That They Listen To Every Single One That Comes.