When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

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