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

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.

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

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.

Success is not a romantic word, it's an ugly world.

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.