Quotes by Jonathan Davis

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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 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!"

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

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

"I don't know the true meaning of happiness."

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

"I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet."

"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!"

"Real friends stab you in the front."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."