My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.

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.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

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

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 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?

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