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.

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

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

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

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

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.