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….

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

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks..

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!.

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….

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave th….

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies..

I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who….

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

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists..

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 ….

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive..

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

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'.

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

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably pl….

The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night..

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be….