Top 40 Jonathan Davis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.”

— Jonathan Davis

2. “When I listen to music, I don’t want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.”

— Jonathan Davis

3. “I don’t like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.”

— Jonathan Davis

4. “I don’t know the true meaning of happiness.”

— Jonathan Davis

5. “People die from typewriters falling on their heads.”

— Jonathan Davis

6. “You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you cause you’re all the same.”

— Jonathan Davis

7. “Real friends stab you in the front.”

— Jonathan Davis

8. “If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman – no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that’s what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can’t do that.”

— Jonathan Davis

9. “Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don’t want to see the truth!”

— Jonathan Davis

10. “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

11. “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!”

— Jonathan Davis

12. “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

13. “The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.”

— Jonathan Davis

14. “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

15. “I’m a human being and every human being has problems.”

— Jonathan Davis

16. “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.”

— Jonathan Davis

17. “It’s the first time I’ve been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.”

— Jonathan Davis

18. “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

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

— Jonathan Davis

20. “I feel like Obama’s an Illuminati puppet.”

— Jonathan Davis

21. “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

22. “Be yourself, let you come through.”

— Jonathan Davis

23. “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

24. “I feel like I’m waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.”

— Jonathan Davis

25. “I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That’s pretty much simple.”

— Jonathan Davis

26. “I love DJing, and I love rocking out.”

— Jonathan Davis

27. “I want to hold a CD I didn’t burn. I hate burnt CDs.”

— Jonathan Davis

28. “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

29. “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

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

— Jonathan Davis

31. “I’m a big David Lynch fan.”

— Jonathan Davis

32. “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

33. “I think people should be able to do what they want to do.”

— Jonathan Davis

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Every day I’ve got to hear about unemployment and people starving.”

— Jonathan Davis

38. “I’ve been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.”

— Jonathan Davis

39. “Videos? Videos are important because millions of people watch TV and we can only tour and play so many places. But if you’ve got a video, then you’re able to air it and millions and millions of people will see it.”

— Jonathan Davis

40. “We’re not trying to change the world; just music.”

— Jonathan Davis

41. “I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.”

— Jonathan Davis

42. “It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.”

— Jonathan Davis

43. “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

44. “It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.”

— Jonathan Davis