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

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 know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

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.

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

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