There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.

You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.

It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.

The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.