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Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.

We played with Rush somewhere way early in our career.

I like Harvey Mandel.

I don't know any American rock bands.

We all record together. We do it live; then, after that, we do overdubs, if we need to, to repair stuff. Usually when we do stuff, we have to make sure we get the bass and drums down, and by doing it live, you're actually playing the song. You're not piecing together a song.

I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.

I'm kind of a goony guy, a dweeb or a geek.

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

Living someplace like L.A. seemed awful to me.

I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that's not just love songs about your girlfriend.

The only time I have a problem is when I have to get in a vehicle after we play and sit there in a cramped position for a couple of hours to drive to the next place. Then I get super stiff.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that was the last guitar lesson that I ever took, so I taught myself what I wanted to know.

If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.

I did what I believed in. It got me in trouble, but it also got me a job.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

If you can say something special on the guitar, then you're going to perk my ears up. But if you're just gonna run through all the scales, then I can always find something else to listen to.

Duane Eddy is somebody I wanted to play like. I discovered him before The Beatles, and he totally got to me. He sent me a note back in 1977 and said that he really liked what Cheap Trick were doing. That's one of those 'Wow!' moments, you know?

I knew the guys in the Allman Brothers way back in the day, before they were famous.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.

I love to be the loudest thing in the room.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.

In 1977, I had Paul Rivera hotrod six Fender Deluxes for me. At that time, a lot of studio guys in L.A. were using those - not so much live guys but studio guys. They had terrific tone and great technique, and I was like, 'Well, I like having terrific tone even though I don't have any technique.'

I always use my Les Paul. I have a Hamer as well. I use a Tele and an Esquire - once in a while, I will use a Strat, and I never use any pedals... except for in my car.

I never tried to emulate The Beatles, and I never really wanted to be like The Rolling Stones. I never really felt that I had the look or the demeanor of veteran musicians.

I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

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