Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
I write, I write, I always write.
Sometimes when I’ve gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
Yeah, yeah I think that’s one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we’re Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we’re normal.
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 read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
Fortune is either with you or it’s not.
I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He’s an all-loving God.
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.
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.
I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
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.
No, I have to really focus, especially when I’m writing because I wanna be good at it.
Whatever had been on the radio in the ’60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
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.
A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.
I just don’t write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
We just bought a new house, so my wife’s been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
I was born and raised Catholic.