Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.
I have enough to think about – I just don’t ever want to have to think about my car.
Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it’s metal.
To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it’s fun, too. The day that it’s not fun, that’s when I’m not gonna play guitar anymore.
To be honest, I’m one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That’s it, period.
Nobody gets into a band and thinks they’re going to have a 30-year career.
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you’re jamming and having a good time.
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I’m a giant Ramones fan.
I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.
I’ve always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can’t do with their bodies.
I don’t even know who that person was in the ’80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don’t even recognize myself.
Anthrax, it’s something that gets you sick, it’s horrible, strong. It’s a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage – that’s what the guitar for me has always been.
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.
When you’re younger – duh – you don’t really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
I’m certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, ‘I’m Jewish.’ That’s not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.
What I love about ‘The Walking Dead’ is it’s a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.
As big as Metallica are, they’re still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they’re still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It’s still underground.