For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

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