Sonny Sandoval

“Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other way around, so they're going to do whatever they want to do.”

“Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We've been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n' roll, metal, reggae - and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost.”

“Some kid who thinks he's cool can say, 'Hey, I'm down with Jah.' It's the same thing as saying, 'I'm down with God.' If it's easier for you to relate that way, then cool.”

“I could have continued to get into trouble, but I wanted to do something positive with myself - and music is the best way.”

“I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'”

“I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.”

“I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.”

“We don't tell you what to think or believe in. That's not our job. We're rock musicians. Our job is to rock.”

“Someone like a Bob Marley - he was singing Scripture.”

“Payable On Death is actually a banking term, when someone passes on, what someone leaves behind. We related that to Jesus on the cross, and by his death, our sins are paid, the debt is paid. We have salvation if we want it. We got tired of saying Payable On Death, so we went to P.O.D.”

“It's always been my heart that God would save people through this crazy music somehow, someway, His way.”

“With rock n' roll and touring comes a lot of good and bad decisions. These guys who are 21, they're out there, and they're not indestructible. The history of rock n' roll tells us, and so a lot of these guys are on this road to destruction.”

“We don't need a resume to come to God. It's not our good deeds. We come broken, and we need a savior.”

“When we first started, I didn't know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions... Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.”

“I'm a man of faith.”

“At first, we were militant about our faith, really in people's faces. We used to say, 'I don't care if they kick us off the stage - I'm gonna tell them about Jesus!' But what good did that do? They never invited us back to the club.”

“My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas. I saw a radical transformation in my family when they started going to a Christian church. I watched them fall in love with God.”

“Christian bookstores have banned our records, but we don't need them.”

“At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.”

“God is love.”