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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
Be yourself, let you come through.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
Do you think I'm sexy?
– Jonathan Davis
I cry, I bleed... I take a dump.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
– Jonathan Davis
I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
– Jonathan Davis
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
I like biting people!
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
– Jonathan Davis
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
– Jonathan Davis
Real friends stab you in the front.
– Jonathan Davis
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
– Jonathan Davis
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
– Jonathan Davis
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!
– Jonathan Davis
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
– Jonathan Davis
When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
– Jonathan Davis
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
– Jonathan Davis
It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
– Jonathan Davis
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.
– Jonathan Davis
I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.