I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

I don't think limits.

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.