"I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)"

“I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.”

“I don't understand the word 'hunk.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.”

“You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.”

Source : Brenda Shaughnessy (2008). “Human Dark with Sugar”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

“Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.”

“I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.”

“The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.”

“I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return”