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

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.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.