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

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

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

If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

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.

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

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.