“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.

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.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent’s brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

There’s so many things that I’ve gone through that I want to share because there’s other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.