And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

When I die bury me in smoke.

In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.

I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

He who fears alcohol MUST also fear ANGER, for anger is more powerful and dangerous than the alcohol.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

When I was at home I was in a better place