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.

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.

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.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

Poetry": What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.

You have no right to be silenced.

There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

If you must make a difference in life, then change your mind set.

I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.