I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.