Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.

A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus nine weeks in the summer, and I was pretty worse for wear by the time I got home in December. I know I was only 34, but that was a tough lap.

If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.

You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.

At the end of the day, you, as the player, create the tone coming out of the amp. The gear is part of it but by no means all of it.

If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock: it's the ultimate air guitar music.

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.

To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition of the original version. Rearranging them and taking a different approach to them.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

I want to be a legend.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.