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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.

When asked for the details of an ideal date, I answered, "I want him to take me to a book store, so he can see just how happy I can be.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

This idea of having back-up plans is ingrained into us to make us believe that that's the smart thing to do.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

Elvis was always over the top. That's why he had that gold lamé suit! He designed his jumpsuits himself. He always said, "If you're going to be a star, you should look like one."