Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.