You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you that easily!

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

Give life a chance.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

-Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.-Joseph went from kidnap experience to pit, to slavery, to prison then to PRIME MINISTER

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

You are what you teach, and you teach what you are.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!