Chess will always be the master of us all.
I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.
Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.
Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.
I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the artmusic they create.
I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.