“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.”

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.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it.

Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can’t do that anymore.

I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

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

My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.

Twins are so practical. It’s always nice to have a spare.

The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. … And she must be spontaneous as well.

You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was, like, big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice.

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed–that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.

You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone’s yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district.