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I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

I started playing music when I was really young.

When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.