In my better sense of mind, I know that I’m far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me. – Phil Anselmo
There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There’s always going to be something extra for the Pantera fan. – Phil Anselmo
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that’s probably more extreme than the band I’m in at the present time, and it’s something that needs to come out of me one way or another. – Phil Anselmo
I tried to take heavy metal… and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes. – Phil Anselmo
Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it’s a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It’s all right there in front of us. – 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. – Phil Anselmo
It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage… I don’t know… there’s too much of it out there. – Phil Anselmo
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. – Phil Anselmo
There’s always something going on, but thank goodness these days it’s with a clear head, which helps me massively. – Phil Anselmo
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations – when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully. – Phil Anselmo
I wasn’t that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is. – Phil Anselmo
At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It’s a waste of energy, a waste of time. – Phil Anselmo
I’m glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I’ve been in a cave of music for months and months and months. – Phil Anselmo
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I’m gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music. – Phil Anselmo
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It’s not healthy and it doesn’t feel right. – Phil Anselmo
You’re always going to have detractors, and you’re always going to have people who love you, and that’s how it’s perfectly balanced and the world spins on. – Phil Anselmo
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. – Phil Anselmo
The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward. – Phil Anselmo
I guess I’ve never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they’re great, don’t get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don’t know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio. – Phil Anselmo
With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like. – Phil Anselmo
