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

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 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.

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?

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

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

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.