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.

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 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.

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

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

People will respect you more if you are honest with them.

Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.