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

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

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.

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.

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day', I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

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

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.