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

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

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 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.

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.

Give the world what it wants and it will give you what you want

The object of your desire is not an object.

The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.

finding in motion, what was once in place

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.