I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.