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I think the first Soulfly album is one of the strongest records I've ever made. It was definitely the most difficult album to record. There was a lot of pressure and anger going on at the time. It felt like a therapy session in many ways, but that's why I think it's such a truthful album. It holds up.Collection: Max
People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.Collection: Max
I think when things are unpredictable, they don't turn out how you imagine.Collection: Max
I'm not good at updating gear.Collection: Max
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.Collection: Max
My only regret is maybe with Nailbomb. And it's that we didn't do more. Because that project had the capacity to offer a lot more.Collection: Max
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.Collection: Max
It's hard to get at first. I think the first time you listen to 'Chaos A.D.,' you're not sure exactly what you just heard. You're just kind of confused. I don't think people fell in love immediately with the album. It was a learning process.Collection: Max
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.Collection: Max
We love the New York hardcore bands like Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All - the whole thing.Collection: Max
You only get so many shots in this life, and you gotta make it count.Collection: Max
We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band.Collection: Max
I'm a huge Obituary fan.Collection: Max
There were bands like Iron Maiden, but we wanted it heavier. We wanted to go radical, we wanted to go extreme.Collection: Max
Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.Collection: Max
Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided not to be like that.Collection: Max
I started to listen to music in '80 or '81, bands like Queen or Kiss. Then in '83, when I first got into Slayer and Venom and stuff like that, they just blew my mind.Collection: Max
A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's the stuff I want to sing about.Collection: Max
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.Collection: Max
Sepultura had a political album like Chaos A.D. that concerned itself with politics and war. I continued that in some areas with Soulfly.Collection: Max
The heat doesn't bother me as much as it does other people. I'm from Brazil, where it's hot anyway.Collection: Max
Roots' was the first album on which I recorded a berimbau. After that, I recorded it a bunch for Soulfly and other projects. I really enjoy the instrument even though it's only one string. It's really unique-sounding. It's very striking, and you know right away that it's a berimbau - it's one of a kind.Collection: Max
I've always tried to stay true to myself, do things that I like, that I believe are right. That people like it is cool.Collection: Max
I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.Collection: Max
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.Collection: Max
I must have a good chemistry to play because I play every day with the same people. It has to be there. It's essential for a band like Soulfly.Collection: Max
I get to express myself in my songs more than I can ever do in real life or in talking to somebody. I get to say the stuff I really want to say in the songs.Collection: Max
My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.Collection: Max
When we released 'Chaos A.D' it was really hard for a metal artist to survive. Everything was grunge. Everywhere you looked was grunge.Collection: Max
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.Collection: Max
We know Faith No More from back in Brazil; when they played Brazil, we'd hang out with them and became good friends.Collection: Max
I never let whatever - people or ideas or opinions - get in the way of something that is in your head, or is in your heart. If I feel it is right, I will go ahead and do it. And I think that's been always right, right from the start.Collection: Max
I never think about retirement or anything like that.Collection: Max
If you do it with passion - you just have to have passion for what you're doing - and sometimes you've gotta go into these unknown territories and just see what happens. And don't be scared of it, don't be afraid - just go for it.Collection: Max
Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did when I was 15. I can't do that all the time. I try to bring a little bit of that into some stuff that I do, but I can't just be that only. There's much more to life than that.Collection: Max
Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about it is.Collection: Max
I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.Collection: Max
For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And when it comes to lyrics, it's an agonizing process.Collection: Max
I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.Collection: Max
I think 'Roots' is a courageous record with some really cool stuff in it.Collection: Max
People always think they know better. In football, everybody thinks they can be head coach and do it better. It's the same in F1: they always know better, even if they have no experience of it.Collection: Max
I've raced at the Hungaroring in Formula 3, and it's a bit of a Mickey Mouse track.Collection: Max
I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn't mean you have to drive slower; it actually means you have to drive faster, but maybe with a little bit in control, and that's what I learned.Collection: Max
If you are not allowed to defend, what's racing about, then?Collection: Max
It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.Collection: Max
I have to say it was a very good start, a very good first season. I enjoyed it a lot, scored good points and gained a lot of experience.Collection: Max
Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.Collection: Max
We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!Collection: Max
I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?Collection: Max
I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.Collection: Max