The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

It's fun doing new things.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.