I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

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.

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

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

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

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.