“We could easily have made 'Arise II' and plenty of fans would have bee...” — Max Cavalera Quote

“We could easily have made 'Arise II' and plenty of fans would have been happy, and we probably would have been OK with that, too. But it was much more exciting coming up with fresh, new stuff like 'Refuse/Resist' which had this crazy, heavy groove on it and 'Territory,' which just had these tribal beats and catchy, weird riffs.”

“Chemistry is so difficult to explain. It's there or it's not. And I notice with people it sometimes is there and then disappears with time.”

“The vocals are aggressive not because I want to create an evil voice or anything like that, but because when I sing about angry things that's the way it comes out of me.”

“Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.”

“An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.”

“I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.”