The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.

I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.