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

The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.

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.

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.

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

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.