Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey, ' because computers can do that.

That's why I like the blackest nights-the darkest, obsidian skies of winter. When the world is coldest and darkest, the stars shine brightest.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.