I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

When you win, we win; but when you go down, you go down alone.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.