Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey, ' because computers can do that.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.

The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.