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.

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.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

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 would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.