When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.