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

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.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

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.

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?

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.