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

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

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

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.

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

If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

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.