To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.