Jeff Hanneman

“I actually have only one Jackson! ESP makes all of my guitars now. But that Jackson was probably the last one I paid for, which is why I used it so much; I had to get my money's worth. That's why, for the longest time, it was in all of our photos.”

“I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.”

“I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.”

“To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.”

“I love hockey, and I go to a lot of the games.”

“Don't overthink things. Make the next record, and keep rolling with it.”

“When we started, I was just having fun with it I didn't even know about doing it for a living. It was a new style of music, a combo of punk and metal.”