Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

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.

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.

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'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

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

When I die bury me in smoke.