“Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like ...” — Max Cavalera Quote

Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out - music from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. So much of that stuff was groundbreaking.

I think the older I get, the more psycho I get.

I see metal as really connected to tribalism. Like, even the way we dress and the way we love the music and are part of a movement, it's like we're part of a certain tribe, and we're proud of that.

I never think about retirement or anything like that.

There were bands like Iron Maiden, but we wanted it heavier. We wanted to go radical, we wanted to go extreme.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

I've fallen in love with South American music: Tango, the music of Argentina, the music of Brazil, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.