You’re constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you’ve made it.
Success is nice, but it shouldn’t be the only reason why you’re a musician.
Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone’s sleeping.
Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
Our Fans are the best fans in the world, don’t mess with them.
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.
You think I’m stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I’m stupid.
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
We’d like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
Touring for two years is excruciating.
It’s not cool to be an alcoholic.
For me, you say the words ‘concept record,’ and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
It’s the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that’s something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.
My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.
If fans come up to me, I talk to them.
I don’t go out and pick fights.
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn’t fanatical.