Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ‘Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they’re a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a...

My musical tastes change every week.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Star Wars,’ science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to...

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren’t really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the...

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don’t know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps...

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it’s all metal, but on the inside it’s very delicate.

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

When people are confronted with something they’ve never seen before, they really don’t know how to react.

One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that young players – I mean and 12-year-olds – really like my guitar style. There’s something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and...

There’s something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, ‘He’s just hiding behind the wah.’ But that isn’t the case. It’s just that those frequencies really bring out...

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, ‘Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies’ has probably played out in a lot of people’s discovery of...