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 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.

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

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.

Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.