Band Quote by Tarja Turunen

Like any band, including mine, there's a comfort zone that's hard to escape. You kind of need an outsider to tell you that. You…

— Steve Berlin

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as…

— Tobias Forge

One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.

— Robert Trujillo

But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in…

— Arjen Anthony Lucassen

In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and…

— Armaan Malik

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

— M. Ward

I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm…

— Linda Perry

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

— Ann-Margret

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the…

— Steve Albini

I'm not a big metal fan. I love and respect the musicianship, which is spectacular.

— Steven Adler

At first we had a scary image of metal and it was hard to approach other artists.

— Yui Mizuno