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.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

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

My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.

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

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