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I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.