Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

i've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

Baltimore is a great place.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.