It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.