I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it.

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.

People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths.

It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a 'how to' for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time.

The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.

All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.