"I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!"
"Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius."
"I have learned from my mistakes and become older."
"Now I just want to be together with my family."
"As I respect others, I want others to respect me."
"Musically, 'Fallen' is a cross between 'Belus' and something new, inspired more by the debut album and 'Det Som Engang Var' than by 'Hvis Lyset Tar Oss' or 'Filosofem.'"
"I can confirm that I have been released from prison."
"My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released."
"I have barely seen my son since he came into the world. Even though I hear his voice on the phone almost every day, it is very tough to not be present while he is growing up."
"I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books, and be with the wife and kids around the clock - and live a normal life."
"I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media."
"It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation."
"Hate is irrational. I am a rational person."
"I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?"
"I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference."
"I've been offered, I think it was £300,000 to play live two concerts in London some years ago. And I said 'No. No thanks.' I would rather stay home here and change oil on my car, or collect some rotten wood from the forest, spread on my ruined former agricultural land."
"To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don't get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time."
"Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it."
"If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself."
"Burzum was never my choice of life. I didn't even want to become a musician."
"Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder."
"I only want to make music I like and that I can enjoy myself and be proud of."
"My main problem with Norwegian Black Metal is that almost all the bands from 1992-1993 are made up of rats, who ratted each other out and blamed me for everything that went wrong in the scene. I really don't want to be associated with them in any way."
"I really don't want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say that, just have a look at an Immortal video on YouTube or something. It's so dumb I don't know what to say, really, and it's so ridiculous, we can barely tell the difference between the real stuff and the parodies."
"You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not."
