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

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 don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

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

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

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.

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