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

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.

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

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.

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.

Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry

The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

I think many monks hesitate to change things.

A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.

I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.