If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.

Every time we have been drunk on Jager it's been - either we didn't remember or it's been insane.

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

I just went into my studio and started to compile stuff. I was so happy with what was coming out that good momentum just carried over and when I would listen back to some of the riffs and some of the ideas, I was completely happy because I felt like, "wow, this was a breakthrough!" The ideas and the songs were really strong and I couldn't wait to show everybody the stuff.

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

That's why I think it hurt us, whereas these other bands [I'm assuming he means the other Big 3 -Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica] they kept doing their thing, just METAL. METAL. METAL. METAL. We didn't do that, we took a little but of a turn.