Jonathan Davis Quotes


Jonathan Davis

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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`ve never been a political band. But if I can`t say the F-word in the United States of America, I`m going to say something about it. If it gets to the point, where you can`t cuss on TV, I`m moving to a different country.

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.

(About working as a coroner`s assistant in his youth) "Mainly I discovered that I`m not afraid of death, but I`m afraid of dying too young. I want my son to bury me, and I want to be mummified and have my body put in the wall. I just don`t want to rot. I want to be preserved in a mausoleum behind glass with both my middle fingers up with a disco ball above my head. I wouldn`t charge people admission. That would be my last gift to the world."

I have been on the road for so long that it has become my second home - MTV, a day in the life of KoRn

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

I don`t know the true meaning of happiness.

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.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

When I listen to music, I don`t want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

I don`t like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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.

Be yourself, let you come through.

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 don`t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

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.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don`t want to see the truth!

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!

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.

Real friends stab you in the front.






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