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

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.

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

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

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