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

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

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

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

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

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.