But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think you just go up there, do the song, and they film the video. You do it like a jillion times before that though. Same thing in the studio.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.