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We flew out to go as a family, and it wasn't bad. It was under a kind of dictatorship, I guess, but I didn't witness anything stupid going on.

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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.

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Fortune is either with you or it's not.

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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.

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We would just be learning to play Beatles songs and Rolling Stones songs of that time - of the '60s. That's kinda what inspired me to play.

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For the heavier crowd, you're definitely going to get your money's worth from this tour.

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I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff I learned how to draw blood.

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I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

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I write, I write, I always write.

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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

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I have a bunch of stuff written that we haven't used, but I haven't sat down and really focused on what to put toward the album.

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Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

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If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

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

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After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean

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I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

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

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Because of time, we've learned that there are some things that you really have to maintain, like a normal home life and that's a plus.

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We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.

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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.

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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.

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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

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I was born and raised Catholic.

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I had to be at least 8 or 9 I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

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As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

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