I feel that through my father’s music I’ve found my own voice in my own playing.

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad’s band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they’re chasing their tails.

Well, I haven’t been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father’s music because they’ve been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

Just because something has tubes doesn’t mean it’s the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.

If there’s some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I’ll do it. I don’t take anything seriously at all.

On the average, I don’t spend more than 15 minutes in the car – to go to the golf course or the gym. And that’s the only time I listen to the radio.

I’m game for anything fun.

I don’t care about a social life.