I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

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*!

Like life, love is a constant adventure and a constant process. It is not a possession.

Don’t be proud-you don’t have anything

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I never won an Oscar...and the Oscars never won Irene Papas.

No change, no chance.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.