100 Quotes by John 5

'Hee Haw' was a huge influence on me.

I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.

I never wished to be a 'rock star.' I just wanted to be a working musician. My dreams didn't even go past a session player or a working musician. It was too far beyond my dreams.

I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and how it is just a completely different form of guitar playing. It is just like if you started speaking in a different language like Japanese or something. It is something that you have to study and work at a lot.

If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount of money for that dinner, you can get a John 5 Squier Telecaster and have it for the rest of your life.

I love Loretta Lynn, and I love Roy Clark and Johnny Cash, everybody.

I love doing it. It's great. I love doing the sessions, 'cause you're kind of like in a different band every day. I used to do them all the time. I think my first one was John Wetton from U.K. and Asia and all that stuff, King Crimson. It was so great. Really a lot of fun.

You pick up a lot of things as a kid. That's why I play Telecaster.

There's 24 hours in a day, and I'm working most of them.