I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

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

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

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.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.