For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

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.

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

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

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.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

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