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.

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.

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*!

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

Omg! To the past.Omg! To the present. Omg! To the future. It's life. Don't give up!

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.