'One day, when I was young, my Dad brought home a guitar. I was quite intrigued and went to pick it up but he said, 'Son, unless you can wail on that thing like Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme or maybe Steve Vai when he was playing with David Lee Roth and he had the sweet double-necked guitar that was like two legs coming out of a heart, keep your damn hands off it!' And I never touched a guitar again. So to answer your question, yes, I answer the phone whether it rings or not.'

'Oh yeah, and using different guitars for different feels in a song is definitely cool. Fender guitars lend themselves well to clean tone parts; they have a ni…

'Tell him to come check me out when I'm shredding some sweet finger tapping solos and then he'll be like, 'Power chords blah blah blah.' And I'll hit the whamm…

'Ninjas are TOTALLY SWEET, what with all the guitar solos & flipping out & totally chopping people's heads off.'

Interviewer: How did you learn to sing? Davey: I did? I don't know, I've been singing since I was five years old at family functions. I used to visit my great …

I really learned it all from mothers.

'For me,' he explains his mammoth project, 'it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them …