I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.

For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.