When I was a kid, every time I thought that I was in love I would write beautiful music. Things would go sour and then I would write really hateful music. It bothered me so I started looking for inspiration elsewhere. I primarily found this simply by listening to a lot of world music, and my lyrics became quite philosophical and generally revolved around historical instances.

I decided that anything that I do that does not benefit me or mankind in some way is time wasted. Even if I am working on heavy metal compositions, I just really want to make people think, and do it without being political or throwing things in their faces.

I think art and political/religious/racial beliefs should be put in two separate rooms.

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