Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

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.

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.

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.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie