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

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

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

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.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

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.