I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare..

Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal..

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the ….

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground..

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period..

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities..

What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the….

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff..

Why would heavy metal ever go away?.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time..

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perfor….

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore..

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that..

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds..

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan..

I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car..

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I li….

I find it much easier to write comic-books than lyrics actually because it's a natural dialogue. Writing song lyrics is not natural but over the year….

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career..

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life..

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really diffic….