When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?

There's at least one fist bump every interview.