100 Quotes by John 5

Inspiration is one of my favorite things. That's all I want to do - I want to inspire people.

I've been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it's incredible how big it's gotten. People really enjoy these records.

I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

I always look for inspiration. If I find something that's inspiring, I'm so excited because it is very hard to find something inspiring.

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.

I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow' and 'Aja' and 'Deacon Blues' and 'Josie' and 'Peg'... all these songs are on one record. It's crazy!

I love watching documentaries on people like 'clean freaks,' because it's just so interesting to me for some reason.

I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody.