For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day', I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

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

I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan--I'm not into it. It's silly.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

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

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