Davey Havok

“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.”

“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.”

“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”

“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'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.”

“I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.”

“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.”

“I love Baz Luhrmann.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My worst fashion failure was when I wore tight PVC pants, and I had a show in Eugene, Oregon... my pants split down the center.”

“Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.”

“We've always been a polarizing band.”

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

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

“I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.”