Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

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.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

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.

I was born and raised Catholic.

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