Arms: (Tom Araya Loves guns). No it's not that tragic. As far as I know Tom own's 3 Guns for his personal defence.

Bill Clinton: I hate this Motherfucker! (Why?) He tries to be likely to every race but does NOTHING! Before the election he made promisses to different races and after the election he had done nothing! He only made those promisses to enter the White House. Anyway, I don't like him. I think he is an socialist.

Curch: I am not intrested in religion, but I would not claim that there isn't something like a God. Anyway, the more I think of it, the more I am in doubt about his Existence. (What do you think especially about the Church?) I hate people who own money in the name of the Church, and those who don't accept your opinion because of their faith to the Church. The only thing I like on the Church is, when people have so much faith that they stay clean and do nothing criminal.

Democracy: Democracy in my opinion means you life in a country where you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't hurt the rights of others.

Earth: Oh that's difficult! Well, it's our origin what we are. That's it. (Very short. Do you think that the Humanity is destroying the earth?) I think that we destroy ourselves. We damage the earth but the earth will exist longer than Humanity. We can't destroy the earth. Destroyed woods and air pollution, this can't destroy the earth, only Humanity! I think projects like "Save the Planet" are bullshit, their Name has to be "Save Humanity".

Fans: The SLAYER Fans are the best and greatest in the World! Madonna or Michael Jackson have more fans than us, but our Fans dedicate themselves to the band and understand the band!

Germany: Germany is great. I love Germany (laughs). I was landing here today and thought, oh God, I should buy myself a little house in this country. Germany is a beautiful country, the people are nice. The only thing what I noticed over the last years is, that the people are beginning to think political correct. The people should overcome their german past. We have nothing to do with this, had many years no problems in Germany and now we are getting asked if we are "Nazis" etc.

Hate: Hate is something that everybody has in his body. Many people say that it is not the case, but I am sure that even the peacefullest dude has some hate in his body. Hate is a part of the Human mind.

Indians: They life very close to nature, obvious they are a very primitve race. Well, they are humans (Wow, really?), that's it. (Do you mean that the USA were their origin Country?). Oh come on! This was a long time ago. The europeans came to America and found a good but very primitive culture, they have done their job (???) and that's it! Do you want that all Americans leave the USA, so that the Indians get back their Land? (Many Indians have to life in reservations). It's not that tragic. Many Indians live in the American community and life a normal life!

Judgement Night: Do you like the song with ICE-T? Yeah, I love this song! In the beginning I wasn't to keen about the Idea, because normally I don't like it to mix different Bands and Styles. Thats a job for Bands like ANTHRAX, because they do it of financial reasons. I love SLAYER, because we are what we are.

Ku-Klux Clan: They are a pile of Idiots. I know that, but I don't know more from them. I am not intrested in them.

Liberty: This is something we have to worry about, because the political correctness will kill the peoples minds. When somebody jokes about a Black oder a White he isn't a rascist. In every human race there are assholes, it has nothing to do with the color of the Skin. When I am angry about a Black dude, then not because of his skin, just because he has done something stupid.

MTV: They Suck! I don't want to talk about them! (Couldn't they be a great help for SLAYER?) Well, we don't need them. They try to be political correct (...), on the other side they play Videos of Bands who suck all day long. We've made it a very long way, WITHOUT MTV!

Nineteeneightytwo (1982): (The year Slayer was founded) We were a gang of 18 Year old Kids who don't knew what they wanted. I wanted to become the heaviest band of all Times. My biggest influences in this time were IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST and mostly the Punk. In this time Slayer was a combination of these two music styles.

OJ. Simpson: As I grew up, he was an Idol for myself, I love football. Icehockey follows football, I played it on the Highschool. I think the whole story with O.J. was made to big by the Media.

Pantera: Kerry Likes their Music. We've met them once, cool boys. But I don't like the music so much, I like other stuff.

Reign in Blood: ABNORMAL! KICKS ASS! This is Slayer History. (Do you think it is the best Slayer Record?) WHAT do YOU mean? (Sure it's the best) I think, it's one of the best Slayer Records.

Sepultura: I haven't heard their music yet. I think Tom heard them once. I don't know if its true, but I've heard that they say stupid things about us. If it's true FUCK THEM!

Ticket Prices: (The Ticket prices are Very high) Yeah, thats right, it sucks. The promoters want to earn much money. We try to push the prices down but we can't regulate that. We don't earn any Money with the Ticket Prices (you earn the money with Merchandise) Hey, you got it. We earn our money with Merchandise.

Underground: I think it don't exists anymore. For me personaly 1985 was Undeground in this Style of Music, the only bands were SLAYER, MEGDETH, METALLICA, ANTHRAX, POSSESSED and this Band from germany (he means SODOM). If there is an Underground today, then not in this type of music.

Venom: What? (Venom, the Band) Venom, wow, I forgot about them, haha. We've met Cronos 2 or 3 years ago. Venom were a real cool band in that time, that's all.

World War III: Will come in unforseen future, maybe we will experience World War III. The main reason for that is that the Humanity is going to be more and more policitcal correct (once again).

Youth: I have much trust in the Youth of today, as long as they begin to become political correct (and again).

This was the A-Z Interview with Jeff Hanneman
Sorry for the very bad english in this Interview but I translated it from German into English. If you want to you can help me correcting this Interview.