Neal Schon Quotes

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.

I'm just getting older and better.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.