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

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

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?

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.

Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

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

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.