Varg Vikernes Quotes

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

'Power' came in August. February 2014, 'Empire' ended. That whole time, I was like, 'You know what, let me just take a break from this and focus on music' so in that time period, I did my whole EP. Got the single 'Lotto.'

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year.

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I'd like to do something that involves music.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

My goal is to generate more material for myself.

Before I leave the earth, I'll have released a bunch of albums and a bunch of movies. I'm going to do it all. It's just that I have to strategically position myself on how I do it so that the world receives it.

I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

I always thought that I would have a recording career.

In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.