Jonathan Davis Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 don't know the true meaning of happiness.

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.

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.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Be yourself, let you come through.

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.

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

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.

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