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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

"When trying to locate something, search your mind first."

"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."

"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

"I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place."
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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."


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


"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."


"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."


"Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio."


"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."


"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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