We Definitely Have A Hardcore Following.

To Do An Extreme Metal Record Is Something That Is Well Within My Capacity As A Musician To Write Stuff Out Of The Box, Write Stuff That's Probably More Extreme Than The Band I'm In At The Present Time, And It's Something That Needs To Come Out Of Me One Way Or Another.

Speaking Of Stage Freight. I Was Terrified! It Was In Nola At An All Ages Show. I Was Wearing Jeans, A Van Halen T-shirt, And A Bandana On My Neck. Once I Gripped That Microphone Stand, I Did Not Let Go! I Plugged My Microphone Into A Guitar Fx Pedal. Then At The End Of The A Black Sabbath Song We Were Covering, I Hit The Guitar Pedal. It Was Horrific!

We, Pantera, Had The Greatest, The Most Intense, Dedicated Fans I've Ever Seen In My ******* Life. And I Really Hope With All My Heart That One Day, People - Especially Our Fans And My Friends - Can See Clearly Enough To Think For Themselves And Really Realize That I Have Nothing But Love For Them. I've Just Been Going Through Personal Hell Since December. Once Again, It's Very Hard To Talk About, Man. You Know, My Heart Is In A Thousand Pieces A Day.

You Can Only Exist As Far As Your Mind Will Allow You To Exist, And I Think Chronic Pain Will Stop Time Dead In Its Tracks. You Feel Like You're The Only One, And How Unfair It Is, And A Million Different Feel-sorry-for-yourself Type Feelings.

I'm A Bad Pessimist. I Don't Think About How Successful Any Record I've Ever Done Is Going To Do Before It Came Out.