If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.
But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.