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.

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.

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

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 metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.