I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.

The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked.

You’re being nicer to me than I've been to you lately, " I said."Yes, I am. But then, Hitler was nicer to Poland than you've been to me lately.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

Sometimes the best results come when you are thrown in the deep end.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.