Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category I'm doing O.K.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.

When I look at Bill, I know right away how he thinks. I can feel if he's having problems, even if I'm not with him.

Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

I don't think the important part of making music is the method used but rather the spirit put into it, so to speak.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don't eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

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