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

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.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.

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

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

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