Blackheart Records Being 25 Years Old Represents

I Remember Times When I Was At Shows And The Person Onstage Locked Eyes With Me. And In That Moment, Everything Was Right With The World. I Think That's Part Of My Job, To Create These Thousands Of Moments Every Night. And For The Rest Of Their Life, They Can Say, 'you Guys Looked At Me,' Or 'you Sweated On Me,' Or 'i Got Your Gum.'

At This Point, A Lot Of People Have Made Their Mind Up About Me One Way Or Another. I'm Sure There's A Certain Segment Of Writers Who Won't Ever Give Me The Time Of Day, Hate Me, Don't Get Me, Don't Think I'm Good, Or Whatever. I Guess That's Fine. It's Only An Opinion. There Are Other People Who Do Get It, And Can Be Objective. I Could Be Wrong, But A Lot Of People, Except For Really Young People, Have Made Up Their Minds One Way Or The Other.

I Know That Sounds Cliché, But Mostly From My Own Experiences And Things I See Around Me. We're All Human Beings, And A Lot Of The Things I Write About Are Pretty Universal Things.

To Be So Superfocused And Honed In On One Thing Can Be Good Because Then You Get What You're Supposed To Get Done, Done But You Also Miss Out On Other Things. I Could Have Spent More Time With My Family, And A Million Other Little Things.

I Don't Give A Damn About My Reputation. You're Living In The Past, It's A New Generation.