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

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.

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.

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

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

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