Jonathan Davis Quotes (42 Quotes)

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 always felt like I was working for a record company. Now I feel like we have a true partner. I'm looking forward to this new chapter in our career.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Head is more on the straight and narrow with his Christian views and I can respect that. I don't necessarily agree with it.

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 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.

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

The music that's out today, the songs these kids are writing -- it's a new golden age of songwriting, ... Wonderful lyrics, soaring melodies -- these are beautiful songs. ... They are gems waiting to be mined.

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.

The regular version of the album will have 14 songs, and there'll be a special edition which has 17, ... The whole record in its entirety is so different. There are some straight-ahead, heavy rock tunes, but they're a different kind of heavy. It's like we have this industrial bastard child that flailed its head out of us.

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

The determination was made by us and Prudential that this project was strong enough that we could go forward on a speculative basis,

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.

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

It was more atmospheric, a lot of just different sounds and everything going on that they brought into the picture. It's still a Korn sound but it's different. It's a new Korn heaviness I call it. It's very different from what we'd done before.

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.

We went through a lot of drama this year with Head leaving, and getting off our label and making the album by ourselves. We funded the whole album and didn't know what we were going to do with it. By him leaving, we took tragic and turned it into an oppor

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

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.

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.

Be yourself, let you come through.

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.

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.

He's more on the straight and narrow with his Christian views and I can respect that. I don't necessarily agree with it I definitely don't agree with it but if that's working for him ... I don't want to judge anybody because of what they do, ... I just don't agree with the ideals and the idea of it.

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

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

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

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 didn't want to end up like them dead or in jail. I wanted to be something. Somebody.

It should be interesting. I can't wait to hear these songs acoustic, but a couple of them I wrote on acoustic guitar, so I know it'll translate. ... Hopefully fans will appreciate it. Some will hate it, but whatever. Who cares We're gonna go for it. We haven't practiced, we're just showing up a couple of hours early and going for it.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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!

He was a guy who really liked Sinatra, stuck at this alternative-rock radio station, ... So we had the character record his own versions of these (alternative) songs. That was the original inspiration for Cheese.

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

Problems with my girl. Problems with my family. Business relationships. Friends. You name it.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

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.

We're gonna bring in different songs and play for two hours. That's our new thing. We never played for two hours in our whole career. We thought we would die, but now when I get onstage, I want to do more. So it might be more, you never know.

The songs are at almost the same tempo and I knew it would work right off, so it was just a matter of going into the studio to make it happen. So we hooked up with the boys ... and they're talented. It's fun and just different.

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Clinton was saying that the school-killings in Colorado were connected with rock music, but that is stupid. The government needed to blame it on something and rock seemed to be the easiest target.