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

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

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

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!