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

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

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.

The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

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.