Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
Neil Schon

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.
Neil Schon

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
Neil Schon

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

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.
Neil Schon

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

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
Neil Schon

I'm just getting older and better.
Neil Schon

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.
Neil Schon

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

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
Neil Schon

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
Neil Schon

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.
Neil Schon

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.
Neil Schon

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

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.
Neil Schon

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.
Neil Schon

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.
Neil Schon

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.
Neil Schon

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