I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

When I die bury me in smoke.

In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

your honesty is your luck line

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

There's almost a Darwinian quality about the NFL.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.