I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

Fast growth in a start-up is a sign that customers like what you're doing.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.