Well, people tell me I sound like Satch or Van Halen, well, I've listened to them so much!

Once my mom came into my room when I was a teenager, and I was listening to some Yngwie, she told me 'good tune you wrote there' that was cool...

Satch sounds like Jeff Beck at times, just like VAI sounds like Zappa... Influences are good, just have enough so that you don't sound alike, but like a mix of them.