I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

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.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

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

I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan--I'm not into it. It's silly.

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