"I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard."

“After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. May 29, 2003.

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

Source : 1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

“Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.”

Source : Millard Fillmore (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.179, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I think there is a core of Trump supporters who, as he said during the campaign, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. They are not rattled by anything they have seen. They're sticking with him, so they're happy to sort of see him back out there being Trump.”

“I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.”

Source : "Arjen Lucassen: Human Or Intergalatic Space Crusader?". Interview with Igor Italiani, progressiveworld.net. April 2002.

“There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all”

“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”

“Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect the truth of our souls and psyches, they become real and compelling. The wonderful paradox is that the characters then take on lives of their own, separate from their creators. That's where the magic comes in.”