I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

A man with outward courage dares to die

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.

Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.