This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.

You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.

You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.

I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.

There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.

I think being a frontman is the greatest job and I get to do this every day.

Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.

Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God's touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God's touch, immediately.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

I'm paid to preach not to practice.

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. "Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad?

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.