Sometimes I Just Want To

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.

I Went To The Zoo One Day And Saw A Chimp Playing With A Beat-up Acoustic Guitar In A Way I Had Never Seen Before. Instead Of Using The Pick The Chimp Was Banging The Neck And Tapping It With Its Fingers. I Knew The Chimp Was On To Something So I Practiced This New Technique In My Room For Hours Until I'd Perfected It.

The One Thing I Do Have Is Good Ears. I Don't Mean Perfect Pitch, But Ears For Picking Things Up. I Developed My Ear Through Piano Theory, But I Never Had A Guitar Lesson In My Life, Except From Eric Clapton Off Of Records.

I'm The One In The Band That Said I'm Not Going On Tour Unless We Do A Record.

On 'van Halen,' I Was A Young Punk, And Everything Revolved Around The Fastest Kid In Town, Gunslinger Attitude. But I'd Say That At The Time Of 'fair Warning,' I Started Concentrating More On Songwriting. But I Guess In Most People's Minds I'm Just A Gunslinger.