Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. So that meant holidays, weekends, nights.

The Rosary is THE weapon.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.