No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

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

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

Movement is meditation. Move to win.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.

You can't kill the truth.

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.