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

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

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

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

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

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.

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.