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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? "
Music
Know
Listen
" A good wine has many qualities, I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart. "
Heart
Drunk
Think
" 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. "
Death
Thinking
People
" As long as it's good music, that's what's important. "
Good Music
Long
Important
" Besides Slayer, which is a full-time job, I raise animals. I have a ranch in Texas. My wife takes care of the animals when I'm on tour. When I get home, I become a ranch hand. "
Job
Animals
Home
" Fortune is either with you or it's not. "
Fortune
You
Either
" 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. "
Country
Enjoy
Good
" Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine. "
Me
Differences
Enjoy
" I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow. "
Life
I Am
God
" If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs. "
Bad
Yeah
Were
" I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it. "
Discuss
Politics
Like
" I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song. "
Song
You
Name
" I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. "
I Write
Yeah
Write
" 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. "
Tell
She
You
" 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. "
Books
People
Like
" I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read. "
You
Chance
Good
" I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice. "
Good
Think
Say
" I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming. "
Melody
Still
Think
" I was born and raised Catholic. "
I Was Born
Raised
Born
" I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion. "
Parents
Born
Religion
" 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. "
Years
Technical
Air
" I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words. "
Words
Feel
Done
" I write, I write, I always write. "
I Write
Always
Write
" No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it. "
Good
Writing
Because
" Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work. "
Europe
Work
Off
" Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd. "
Experience
Walking
Three
" Slayer fans are unforgiving. Early on in the career, if something changes, it's accepted. But 30 years down the road, in my opinion, they would rather see us do a three-piece than even try to replace Jeff, in a sense. "
Career
Changes
Early
" Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight. "
Always
Sound
Slayer
" Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse! "
Song
Me
Same
" That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar. "
Learning
Play
Guitar
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