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

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

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.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Love is powerful. If you want more of it in your life be grateful for what you have and love whenever you can. Positive mind-state essential.

We don't think. We think we think.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.