I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror..

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old..

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'.

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it….

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!.

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerfu….

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties..

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic as….

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate..

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar..

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living..

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo..

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves a….

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head..

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy..

I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having….

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of th….

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes ….

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time..

If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, a….

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. Th….