Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal.

What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.