I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

Because with time, faith, and love...even our scars can become beautiful.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come