I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.

A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

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

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

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

I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.