I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.