I love watching documentaries on people like ‘clean freaks,’ because it’s just so interesting to me for some reason. John 5 Read Quote
What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, ‘What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?’ I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing. John 5 Read Quote
I’ll watch the Grammys and think, ‘You hardly even see people playing guitar,’ and it freaks me out. John 5 Read Quote
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. John 5 Read Quote
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! John 5 Read Quote
Steve Vai had a unique style of playing. Steve Vai didn’t sound like anyone else: Steve Vai sounded like Steve Vai. John 5 Read Quote
Chet Atkins, I love his singer style and the country thing that he did. He really had a huge impact in my life, just his style – western swing and the country thing he did – it really changed my life. John 5 Read Quote
I remember this vividly: It was 1977, and I was in Sears with my mom. And I saw this display, and it was for ‘Love Gun.’ I bought the record just because of the look of that display. Because I really loved monsters. John 5 Read Quote
