I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

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

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.

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

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

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