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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.