Quotes from Max Cavalera

You only get so many shots in this life, and you gotta make it count.

I think 'Roots' is a courageous record with some really cool stuff in it.

We were always big fans of Hellhammer, but when Celtic Frost came on with 'Morbid Tales,' to me it was a game-changer in the metal world.

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

The Soulfly logo was invented by a tattoo artist, Leo Zuleta; a lot of people don't know that.

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's system and find out everything about that person's life because it's all on a computer.

My biggest breakthrough was discovering that I could write my own riffs.

Eye for an Eye' is super-simple, super-catchy, but very effective.

When Sepultura played in B, because of Iggor's drumming, because of the way the songs are structured, it's very different from Korn. So, it opens up a whole new world.

Guerillas' uses a snippet of 'Procreation of the Wicked' by Celtic Frost because I always loved that song.

Chaos A.D' is about chaos around the world. 'Territory' was about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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

We treated 'Psychosis' like a labor of love from the beginning, from the selection of riffs - I spent like a month just doing riffs for the record.

Doom was one of my favorite crusty punk bands.

When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because it was a big album.

Chaos A.D.' starts normal, but then it breaks into all these crazy fragments. But the things that surprised people is what makes the album cool.

I have lots of friends who stopped being into metal and just quit. Not for me, man.

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

I'm not good at updating gear.

We never had rich girlfriends. All the chicks hated us.

We know Faith No More from back in Brazil; when they played Brazil, we'd hang out with them and became good friends.

Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.

We used to joke that we were more scared of the police than we were of the devil. You had to have I.D. with you all the time or else the police would throw you in jail. I got thrown in jail twice for not having I.D., and walking in there was like walking through the gates of hell.

I don't deny the influence from the first Korn record, which was something we listened to and liked a lot. I liked the rawness of it, and what Ross Robinson did on it, which was why we ended up recording with Ross.