I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

When I die bury me in smoke.

In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

Community is about sharing my life

There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

When things go wrong, I just think: It's part of the journey.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.