I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

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.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.

When you become very ill - raise your head. You will definitely see the sunlight.

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.