To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.