Top 30 Davey Havok Quotes

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

I’ve heard there are vegan corn dogs – I don’t know if that’s true but, jeez, I’d love to eat one of them.

I’ve never been drunk. I’ve never even had a beer.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they’re a part of what we do.

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it’s something they’ve nurtured and grown.

For anyone to take the time to care about what I write and read a book is so flattering to me because it’s fun.

I’m very grateful that anyone takes the time to read what I write, coming from people perceive to be exclusively a musical background and having no traditional schooling in writing.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

As far commercial success, I don’t think that’s a focus but it’s not that we don’t enjoy that. It’s not something you can attempt and achieve.

To me, ‘Crash Love’ is the most stripped-down record that we’ve made since the early Nineties, and I would say that ‘I Hope You Suffer‘ is indicative of the overall tone of this record in being the opposite of that.

I grew up watching MTV, so it’s very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff – Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government Issue – to bands who weren’t straight edge, like Negative Approach. I really feel they were one of the greatest punk bands ever.

But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.

We’ve always been a polarizing band.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you’re gonna get a little bit better at it unless there’s some innate impairment preventing that.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

I mean that’d be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don’t take that for granted.

I love Baz Luhrmann.

Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a focus on self-destruction.

Due to the world I’ve been part of in creating art for so many years, I feel really connected to pop culture and what younger people are talking about.

It’s a wonderful side effect of what we’re doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.

For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.

I’m part of a healthful movement, and very aware of what I put into my body, and my body’s upkeep. And that will lead you to exercise.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn’t freak us out too much.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

Whatever show I go to, no matter what it is – and I go to a lot of them – people say, ‘Wow, I’d never expect to see you here.’ I always say, ‘Where do you expect to see me?’

There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It’s not really that much of an issue.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.