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

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

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

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.

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.

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