There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.

When the chips are down, you are giventhe chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll.

My life is a fairytale stuck at the climax.

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.