I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

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

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

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

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.

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