You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

We definitely have a hardcore following.