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

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

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

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.

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.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.