I don't want people to feel like they'd overdosed on too much candy.

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*!

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.

As long as we keep winning, I'm happy.

I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful.

All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.