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?
Tom Araya

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.
Tom Araya

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

Fortune is either with you or it's not.
Tom Araya

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

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

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
Tom Araya

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.
Tom Araya

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.
Tom Araya

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

I was born and raised Catholic.
Tom Araya

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.
Tom Araya

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.
Tom Araya

I write, I write, I always write.
Tom Araya

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

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

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

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!
Tom Araya

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.
Tom Araya

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