It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.
Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.
I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.
Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.
I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the artmusic they create.
You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.