Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

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

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.

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

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

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.