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….

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….

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

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. ….

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….

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood..

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completel….

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Wo….

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

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on ….

We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans..

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!.

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

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

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….

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….

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

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Dea….

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

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….