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

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

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 don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

Life is too short to be waiting around for opportunities to come in your direction. You must go out there like a hunter and hunt them down.

That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday.

When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.

True life is elsewhere

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

I try to counter what Donald Trump says that might have an effect on somebody.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing.

To survive, you must tell stories.