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.

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

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

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

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

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.

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.