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To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.