Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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.

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.

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.

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.

We have to save as many lives as we possibly can.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.