Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.

As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.

I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we're five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

I think that my parents wanted my brother and I to do what they couldn't have done and live a free life and not worry about war.

Only the political process offers the real prospect of a united Ireland at peace with itself.

Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?