Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.