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.

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.

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.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

I love Alfa Romeos and that [Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio] was tremendous.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote.

I smoke till I got chest pains

I don't mind being listed alphabetically. I do mind being treated alphabetically.

Remember who you really are and be that.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.