My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey, ' because computers can do that.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

Crackers are short on sparkle.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.