“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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you’ll be able to figure out really easily what’s good for you and what’s bad.

My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

There’s artists that I’m working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward…once I said, ‘Yes, that’s me, that’s what I am,’ I was able to work with it.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.

I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.