When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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