I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.
If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.
My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.
I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.
There's no thief like a bad movie.
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.