Max Cavalera

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

“I think all my anger and hate comes out in the music; that should be the way you channel these things. It's like, I don't go out and beat people up, I do it with my guitar.”

“Life goes on, and we have to keep coming up with fresh ideas.”

“I just try to make the best record I can make, without any ego or comparisons at all. I never sit there and tell myself it's going to be a masterpiece or anything!”

“A Clockwork Orange' was one of my favorite movies as a teenager. I had a big poster on my wall in Brazil.”

“I think when things are unpredictable, they don't turn out how you imagine.”

“I'm growing up backwards.”

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

“People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.”

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

“If I'm feeling down, I'll play stuff to get charged up - even better to hear heavier stuff.”

“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.”

“Schizophrenia' was the first real production of the Cogumelo label. They put everything they had into it. The original album had a gatefold with a huge picture of us when you opened the album.”

“We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.”

“We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It's probably my favorite thing about being in a band.”

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

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

“The whole 'Roots' thing is a very confusing time in my life, because I don't think I knew how to deal with the whole fame thing very well - especially in Brazil. We went to Brazil, and the record was massive - like real, real big; like Beatles big. And I remember I tried to go to the mall with my wife, and we got mobbed.”

“Nailbomb was never really a big record. It's big in the underground. It's huge and it developed a big cult following.”

“I'm not good at updating gear.”