I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.

For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

The man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.