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

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.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio

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 believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.

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.