“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.

I saw a commercial for the maxi pads for the bigger gals they’re making now. That was a nice visual while I was eating.

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there’s something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.

I know she’s just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing ’til you hear water.

The nice thing about being on stage is it’s not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I’m up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.

We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created.

The function, what a nice form!

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I’m not interested in hurting their feelings.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.