I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I dont have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

I was born and raised Catholic.