I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

Don't let your fear of instantaneous sadness cause you a permanent one.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

Im not interested in the limelight.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.