Quotes from Steve Lukather

There's nobody like us in rock history. I'm not saying we're the greatest band in the world - that would be ridiculous.

MTV ruined music for us.

We always felt it helped during live shows to have multiple lead singers to give our voices a break.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.

Especially early on, I had no idea what I was going to be asked to do when I walked into a studio. I was doing 26 sessions a week - all day, all night.

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.

Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

There's so many players that I love and admire. Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Mike Landau, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, Jay Graydon, John Scofield, Warren Haynes - the list goes on and on.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age.

The Beatles are the 'on switch' to my life.

I've got the coolest job in the world.

In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.

I'm a weird guy with a weird sense of humor.

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.

In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

God bless classic rock. It's been very good to me; I'll tell you that.

When you're young, you can burn the candle at both ends, and you're fine.

When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.