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

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.

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 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 took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.