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..

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

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

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 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..

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….

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….

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

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..

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

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..

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

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 ….

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

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….

Why would heavy metal ever go away?.

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..

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..

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….