Jonathan Davis Quotes

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

I feel like Barack Obama's an Illuminati puppet. He's basically dragged this country down into the worst it's ever been. Like I say about the White House, 'You've built this house of shame'. Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it's like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

I love DJing, and I love rocking out.

Videos? Videos are important because millions of people watch TV and we can only tour and play so many places. But if you've got a video, then you're able to air it and millions and millions of people will see it.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

I'm a big David Lynch fan.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.