As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

What’s the point in hating something if you aren’t proactive?

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back in a second flowering at the age of 70 to 90.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get through today.