I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

You have to destroy something to make it beautiful.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.