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

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

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.

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.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

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

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.