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.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

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.

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

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

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

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 write, I write, I always write.

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.

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

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction, ' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.