I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

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

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

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.

I was born and raised Catholic.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.