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.

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.

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.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

If you know, you are smart then never try to negotiate your intelligence for the inept.

And then I met this girl.” He paused, his fingers finding mine in a tight squeeze. “And she made all my dark corners light

A witch does not need to fix problems. She fixes the energy AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves…

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.