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

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

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

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

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