I think I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to overcome the insecurities that were going to keep me from living my dream, which was just learning to turn off those little voices in your head that tell you you're not capable of doing something.

I really enjoy the moments with Alter Bridge where I can step out and play lead and have fun.

It's not like I'm writing full songs or full parts and setting it aside for Slash because, generally, I like him to make the first move and hear where he's coming from and what his concepts are, and then I build from there.

I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward.

If the Internet or air traffic of the financial center of the world shuts down, of course the world needs to have a say on it.

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media.