I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

I did what I had to do. Now he's motivated.""Yeah, sure, motivated to s**t his pants maybe, " Luke pointed out.

Love is a great beautifier.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.