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

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

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

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.

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

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.

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.