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.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

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

I don't want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy.

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 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.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.