78 Quotes by Phil Anselmo

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

I've always said that Pantera fans were the best in the world, and I truly meant that, and I still mean it.

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.