Zitat des Tages von Andy Biersack:
I'm real pleased and humbled by the support that the fans show.
We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.
I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery.
I am a clinical zombie.
There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
To be honest, I've always been really interested in the role of the host, whether it's our kind of Billy Crystal-style traditional awards show host or when you have someone like Louis C.K. or a more edgy stand-up comedian do their take on a hosting role.
More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.
I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'
I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.
Rock stars aren't crapped out of the sky.
I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.
As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I've always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley - the rock gods. I've always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.
On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out of my tooth and had to have it sanded down. It wasn't the most painful injury, but it was the most unexpected one.
I came from a town of about 2,000 people with one stop light, and I was told that nothing I ever wanted to do, I would succeed in.
I will say one thing: Mick Mars is one of the greatest songwriters I've ever met in my life and had the pleasure to work with.
The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.
Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.
In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave Vanian from The Damned and Davey Havok from AFI was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
The older I got, I started to realize more it's not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good; you just kind of carve your own way, and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.
My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff.
For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.
For us, we are interested in doing what's cool for us and what's cool for the audience. That's it.
How do we make a record that's true to the vibe of the band but still maintain the pace of moving forward and doing something fresh?
All I ever wanted to do was be in a band.
The image of the band has always been something that's evolved or changed with every record cycle that we've done. I think, in a lot of respects, that's because we were so interested in having a visual representation for the music that we were making.
We're entertainers. We're theatrical.
We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.
I go to a lot of self-help groups in the day, and then I can sleep pretty well at night.
I never anticipated seeing 40.
Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?
A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world.
If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing that people have a stigma about - then we promise a good rock show.
The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.