It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

I think there are enormous possibilities. And today there are no I think barriers to increased cooperation with India and the United States.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.