It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore. - Joe Satriani

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book … that's no fun at all.