In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

Sorry, just ignore the man behind the curtain. Great, a subconscious with a sense of humor.

License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.