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.

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.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

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.

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