Jonathan Quotes"Yes. Methamphetamines. You can fuck for like eight hours. You fuck so long, your
dick's bleeding."
(Jonathan responding to a question asking him if he has ever took drugs to enhance his sex
life)
[" all the crazy shit ive done just to make fans happy...i dont mind doing it, its just i wanna
show that it kinda took alot out of me and i went through alot of shit trying to express my
feelings and stuff, and put it in the music.
so i did a song especially for them, and its to tell them all that i love them cause if it
wasnt for them i wouldn't be alive...i dont think."
(Jonathan explaining the meaning of the song 4U)]
" I don't know. I haven't analysed myself lately. I just like the pain.
Getting whipped! Thats fucking pain. The best one was with a Judas Priest belt; Whaccck!"
(Jonathan responding to a question asking him why he likes pain)
" I can gut someone in less than five minutes from arsehole to tongue."
(Jonathan telling an intrepid reporter about his talents as a coroner)
"That's my bisexual friend Loc. He gives me table dances."
(Jonathan annoying his security guard, Loc)
" I'm a member of the BSC. (Butt Sex Crips) If my assistant (Jonathan Pavesi) bags three more
bitches, He's in."
(Jonathan elaborating on his secret society on his tourbus)
[" Does it make me bad that I have a dick and have feelings to be with someone else? That's what human
beings were programmed to do. Procreate. That's what we do, fuck everything, and that's what our insides
tell us to do."]
(Jonathan explaining the stresses of being married, yet cheating on tour)
"Every day I dreamed of coming in to school with a baseball bat and taking some kid's head off."
(Jonathan telling a reporter about when he was picked on and ridiculed in high school)
" I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its like high school
never ends, the jocks are always on top."
[" I think I'm a clinical worrier, I worry about everything and I've always been that way. I want
to make sure everything works out as planned and I just get lost in my worries and fears. As if that
isn't enough, I also worry about everybody else and try to carry their burden. Its like I have the weight
of the world on my shoulders."]
" The freaky side of me only comes out when I'm making music. The rest of the time I'm still that scared
little boy."
" Suicide is the stupidest thing you can ever do."
" You're all of four foot two."
(Jonathan insulting Fieldy)
[" Heads the kinda guy that sits in his hotel room when no ones looking and cuts notches in his balls.
that guy even drinks beer in the shower. if you go into his room theres sneakers, beer cans, and all
kinds of crazy shit flung everywhere and empty beer cans on his shelves. That kinda says it all."]
" I wanted it to be all these dicks and pussies, a massive ball of sex."
( Jonathan describing the initial design of his mic stand)
"I love Munky, he's my partner in crime."
" I like bad things."
"To Jonathan Davis, this is revenge. Perverted revenge for life as a fuck up." - Metal Hammer Magazine
describing Jonathan.
"I don't want to glorify murderers.
I'm creating a place where people can come to see these things, whether they're studying to be profilers or FBI
agents or whatever. Why do we have Holocaust museums? I don't see anything wrong with a historical collection of
crime."
(Jonathan talking about his serial killer museum)
["I've always been drawn toward the dark side of human nature - the sick, crazy things people do and
what makes them snap. I love that negative energy. I mean, I cut up bodies for seven years. I've got shrunken
heads in my house that I've collected or bought. I'm sorry, but I'm a sick fuck."]
"I'm totally
into intense S&M and bondage. I'm more of a voyeur, though. It just intrigues me. It makes me ... feel better."
"I'm not the stereotypical rock star, out with a bunch of
girls. I have one girl I love. We do have friends come over sometimes and ... do stuff, for fun. But it's a
monogamous situation."
"In America, you can do anything you want, we're fucking living proof. We beat the system, we're out there making
money and we're doing what we really believe in, but America's so fucking
uptight. Take Amsterdam, for example -- that's a fucking free country right there. You can smoke pot, go down to
the red light district, buy a fucking whore, get smacked around and go to jail maybe overnight. There's everything
there. You want it, you name it -- bestiality, everything. It's not uptight, that's how it is."
(about songing about what deeply personal things) "Every time I do it, it makes me feel better
-- the comeback from the crowd and seeing all that madness out there. I'm touching something, I think, that people
want to talk about, that people can relate to. It's hard night after night, but I need to do it, I have to. It's my
therapy. I'm like a Coke bottle. It that shit builds up for so long, it's gonna explode, so with my music,
it gives me a chance for those feelings to go. "
[" I guess I'm a selfish bitch. It's like art -- at least artists have the fucking
pleasure of painting a fucking picture and putting it on a wall for everybody to see time and time again.
They don't have to repeat that, but musicians have to do that. That's the whole fucking beauty of it,
it's gonna be a different show every time. "]
" I think about that a little bit, but I'm just letting my brain do what it does. You can only think
about that so long before it becomes stale. I do remember those times and that does piss me off -- that fuels
my ass -- but it's something fucking crazy. It's like doing a drug. When we're up on stage, it's like going
to that place where you're not even aware of it and once the show's over, it's gone, you don't even remember.
If I could record the essence of what I feel on stage, we'd all be millionaires! "
(being asked about when he sings a song, if he is taken back to what happened to him that the song depicts)
"I guess I'm a big tanking motherfucker. I'm going out there tanking people,
telling them my problems and hoping they'll feel sorry for me. I don't want their sorrow, I just want
them to appreciate what I'm doing. Don't feel sorry for me, that's the last thing I want."
["You make fun of anything you're scared
of: dying -- oh, you're going to die now, HAHAHAHAHA! It's a human emotion, and when I say really, really,
real things, people get scared and there's a backlash, because they don't want to deal with the reality that's
in front of them. The truth hurts...I got one from Entertainment Weekly saying, 'I'm glad Jonathan Davis can capitalize on his bad
childhood, like everybody had in this fucking country, to make money out of it', and that really made me
fucking mad. Who's this fucking bastard to say that? These are my feelings you're talking about and I'm not
putting my feelings out to make money at all. I'm putting my feelings out for myself and other people; if
I get money, that just comes with it, but I'm not one to be money-hungry. Fuck them, fuck those scared
little bastards."]
"Oh yeah, ever since I was little, I've always had to bear that shit anyway,
it's always what I've been taught -- nice people keep quiet or whatever. I'm not going to walk around
'Fuck you fucking fuck' -- that's not right.
(Jonathan after being asked if he thought he had a depressing personality)
" On this album, we just went into a hotel,
I got shitfaced drunk, and when you get drunk, emotions come out, you know that, and I wrote five songs.
I've done songs sober too, and I've done songs fucked up on speed. You need stuff to bring things out of
you, because your body naturally hides stuff away -- you don't want to deal with it. I've done songs about
band members, I've done songs about friends, I've done songs about childhood shit. I'll just dive deeper
into what is up. "
"what society says is wrong. Lions kill deer
to be able to eat -- we're all fucking animals when it comes down to it; the only difference between us and
animals is we can communicate. We're just advanced fucking monkeys. "
"I went to a psychologist who said I wasn't ready for the asylum, but I do have problems.
I've got a way to deal with them and I have an outlet. Everybody does something, be it killing people,
be it writing poetry, be it doing art, whatever -- everybody needs an outlet. If someone has no outlet,
they're going to crack. "
["I don't drink while he's (Nathan's) at home.
Once I came home fucked up drunk, high on speed, looked at him and it killed me, that look in his eyes
-- I felt this big, I felt like a little piece of shit. I've never done it since, I can't look at him.
I think he saved my life, because the way I was going, I was going to kill myself, dying from drinking."]
" I am going down the same road my dad did. It's killing me, because I'm doing what my dad
did to me in that I'm always on the road, but I tell myself that I'm making his (Nathan's) life better in the
future. He'll be pissed off with me, probably get in a band and write songs about me, and that would
make me the happiest man in the world. "
"I had all these aggressions because my father and my mother were doing
all this shit, but now that I have a kid and I'm in their shoes, I kind of fucking know why shit happens,
I can kind of understand now. No one knows what it feels like to be a parent until you have one of your own."
"I love my girlfriend now, (at the time, Renee Pierez) because I trust her
and she's been with me since I was nothing. She lived with me in a fucking closet in my house,
she borrowed money from her parents to keep me and pay our rent, she believed in me. Now if I met some
girl, it would be different, I would always have that thing in the back of my mind that she's with me
because of who I am. "
In Europe, you call each other cunts -- "You bloody cunt!" -- all the time.
[In America] they thought because I named it "Kunt" that it was against women, but I just wrote that song.
It is toward women, but women that have hurt me in my life, ex-girlfriends and stuff like that.
Women go around talking about men all the time -- 'Men are pigs!' Well, fuck that! I can fucking talk
shit about women, because women do fuck men over a lot. All women in America or wherever always want
guys who will treat them bad and make them fucking go, 'OK, I'm gonna try and get him to love me more.'
They thrive on that 'fuck you' complex, yet I write a song about women that hurt me and I get fucking bashed
for it! I have no animosity towards women at all, I fucking love women! Women are great, they're great,
great, great people. Without a man and a woman there would be nothing. Behind every great man -- I'm going
to do this quote -- there's a fucking woman, and it's fucking true! If I come home and talk to my girl about
personal things she makes me feel better about myself: 'Don't forget who you are...' and all that, and I go,
'Thank you.'"
(Jonathan talking about the backlash against him because of the song Kunt)
"If I love you, I bit you"
"Don't f*ck up because I'm a dick now!"
"Getting strip by men" (talking about clothes change between concert sets)
"If it wasn't for them I wouldn't be alive. I don't think." (talking about the meaning of the
song "4U")
"I like men with blond hair and blue eyes."
"I like small d*cks"
"Come here f*cker! Jerk off in my mouth!"
"I'm just sensitive. I'm homo."
"I'm always infactuated with gay people because I'm always called gay. I kind of played the part."
"Peckers, Peckers, Rollie Pollie Peckers, Peckers Eat them all up. Yum!"
"I love George Michael."
"I climb f*cking walls. I climb f*cking ceilings."
"You can suck my dick and f*ckin like it!"
"Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats,
they just don't want to see the truth!" (Jon commenting on the parents that blame music for the violence.)
"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." (commenting on how he feals about rock
and pop.)
"It's my purse."(Jon talking about his sporran.)
"If he gets into drugs or something stupid like that, then I'll kick his ass,
but otherwise he's got to live his life, even now." (Jonathan talking about Nathan and parenthood.)
"The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute."
"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."
"People die from typewriters falling on their heads." (Jonathan talking about taking chances
because you can die at any moment.)
"They're all, 'Dude, we're sorry. We were just kids. Your know how kids are. Growing up' and
I'm just like "Shut up!'" (Jonathan talking about when he meets people from his high school.)
"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."
"Everyone from underneath the stage will be looking at my nuts." (Jonathan talking about his costume
for the Sick and Twisted tour.)
"When you're really depressed it's good to hear someone be hurt too," he said. "When I get depressed
I listen to my own fucking music. I put us on."
"I think Im a clinical worrier, I worry about everything and I've always beem that way. I want to
make sure that everything works out as planned and I just get lost in my worries and fears. As if that isnt
enough, I also worry about everybody else and try to carry their burden. It's like Im trying to carry the
weight of the whole world on my shoulders"
"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."
"We're not trying to change the world; just music."
"I don't know the true meaning of happiness."
"I cry, I bleed....I take a dump."
"I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am."
"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.."
"real friends stab you in the front"
"when I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and desturction."
"Yeah, I am pissed off that I inherited it. I wish sometimes that I was born back in the day. But
today's society is so fucked up...we gotta thank the parents for doing that to the kids." (Talking about the
violence kids today have to face, and why they look up to Jon while their parents dislike him.)
"It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people
who simply copy us, but...it is flattering and of course challenging"
"When you were a kid and you heard the F-word in a song, you'd rewind it 100 times just to hear them say it.
So we said, 'lets put as many cuss word in one song as we could possibly do, And i guarantee little kids that
are fuckin' ten years old are freaking out on that song'"
"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."
"I lip sync...I lip sync.."
"I like biting people!"
"Clinton was saying that the school-killings in Colorado were connected with rock music, but that is stupid.
The government needed to blame it on something and rock seemed to be the easiest target."
"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."
"When I was a little kid Mr. Rogers is all, 'You've got to be nice and be honest and be a good person.' Being
that way as a kid, I got f*cking picked on and I was a nerd. I never got anywhere. I always got shit on!
So f*ck you!"
"When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner,
so I wasn't accepted."
"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."
"We go to these goddamn festivals, and no f*cking goddamn band will love us. We get no f*cking love at all.
It's like we're in our own little world. We're not that goddamn scary. What the goddamn f*ck? For once
in my life, please love me: I'm in Korn."
"Do you think I'm sexy?"
"I wanted to f*cking blow my f*cking head off. But now? Now I'm fine."
"I want to shove things in her. Sharp things. I'd make a piece of art out of her."
(Jon talking about his stepmother)
"We have whole tapes of us scanning the crowd, looking for chicks!
We say "That one's for the tour bus!" "That one's with me!" It's nice and it's not abusing women-
those girls want that shit." (about groupies)
"They go home covered in c*m, but they get to go- 'This is Jonathan's cum.'"(also about groupies)
"I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school
never ends - the jocks are always on top."
"Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us.
They ARE us."
"I have no inner peace whatsoever. If i did - Fuck, I'd suck. people who have inner peace should
just stick to doing commercial jingles for Petsmart and shit..."
"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."
"We're vulgar and obscene, so what? Because we're that way no one can censor us because of what we represent.
No one has a right to do that.. American is too f*cking up tight."
"Just cause some guys look attractive doesn't mean I wanna f*ck 'em though, but I think some guys look cute."
"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"
"I would have given them hell if they would have thrown it all away, thrown away what we worked for all
of our lives. I wouldn't have allowed it. I wouldn't let them throw it all away just because I was such
a f*cking coward." (Jonathan talking about if he commited suicide and the band stopped too)
"I do admit that sometimes I just like being shocking, but that's different, I'm not trying to be the big
star or something like that, it's not a rock star attitude, its more the fear I have that people think they
can control me, that I'm easy to manipulate. So sometimes I just behave a bit strange, you know, be a bit of
a freak, so that they don't think they can pull my strings all that easily. It's more an act of self-defense,
really!"
"I think that we wanted to just come together with a lot of great bands and be able to play for a whole
bunch of people."
"I dunno man, our fans are all really great, but the cool thing is when you talk to the kids and find out
how each of them are different and what each of them think is totally awesome. I've talked to kids before
who have devoted thier life to seeing us play in every location, and thats just a trip to know that we have
fans that will be as devoted as that"
"I had this dream, I dreamt that I was hard."
"I thought it was pretty damn cool in my book. We sent 500 T-shirts to the school that had "KoRn" on
the front and the First Amendment on the back and it said, "Except in Michigan." We contacted the
local radio station and they took the T-shirts down to the school. They said that the cops were there
because they thought there was going to be a riot. But it ended up that all the cops handed out all
the KoRn T-shirts to the kids. It was awesome." About the suspension in Michigan.
"I hate that band. I think they fuckin' should be killed. They just irritate the fuck out of me. I hate
little kids who smile when they play guitar. They're just too happy. They're too little. What have they got
-- 100,000 Hanson sites and 150,000 anti-Hanson sites? They're just like the Spice Girls." About Hanson.
"It's like we're married. And if we did break up, we'd probably just form another band and call ourselves
something else. Fieldy would call up and say, [whimpers] "Please." We've got chemistry. We just click with
each other. When you ask us the same question, we'll all say the same fuckin' thing. ... This was so meant
to be."
"When I come home to L.A. or anything, it's weird. It's foreign to me. I'm not used to it. I can't wait
to get home again. I can't wait to be on the bus. I can't wait to be in the hotel rooms. That's home for
us, and when we come home, it's weird. I mean, it's nice being around our families and everything, but it's
still foreign to us. So we're really, really looking forward to getting back out and being home. My personal
feeling. I think it's the band's too."
"I see the influences. Some are just blatant rip-offs, but some are influences. That's cool. I have no problem
with influences, but blatant rip-offs suck."
"Horrible. I hate it. I hate this year. I mean, it's good that rock made a comeback, with [Limp] Bizkit
and Kid Rock and other heavy bands coming up, but the whole pop-teeny-bop-boy-band thing, it just, I can't
see past it. I hate it. Other people may respect it... it's still an art form, but it's just, uuungh."
"I think music's something that every individual has their own meaning to the song. They can come up with
whatever the hell I'm saying and that's the beauty of it and that's what I wanna keep there." Why Jonathan
will not disclose the lyrics and meanings to their songs.
"No, we do have children, everybody has children. I mean, there's always been this thing about artists
not having kids or whatever. It's like bad thing -- hell no! We have lives too and having a child's the
most incredible thing you can ever do in your life so..."
"It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who
simply copy us, but on the other hand it is flattering and of course challenging. No matter what, it really
does show that we do have an influence on the music scene. We must be really good if they all keep copying
us, I mean nobody would copy something that's just awful, would they? I think it shows that we're pretty good."
"Basically we just do our thing and let people hear it and if it is a commercial success it's not
because we aimed to be a commercial success but because the people who hear it like it and buy our
albums. I don't think we'd ever be commercial or desperately not be commercial. We're just doing our thing."
"I was basically in the process of killing myself, I knew that I had to change my life, my lifestyle, my
outlook, basically everything. I didn't want to die, I wanted to live." About his drug addiction.
"I'm more creative than I ever was. I take everything in now. I'm not stumbling through life sedated anymore."
How it is to write songs nowadays when he does not use drugs any more.
"I like to suck on things!"
"One night I was drunk on Jeagermeister, and after I got done puking, I drank David's piss and ate my
own puke. I've drank everybody's in the bands piss except for Head. I Cant get the glass around his penis,
because he's afraid of it."
"All we want to do is put heavy back into Rock'n'Roll because goddamned Ben Folds Five sucks!"
"Satan is Real."
"I am haunted by demons who influence my writings."
"I'd still be cutting up bodies in the morgue and taking it out on them. Doing that was a
really important time in my life, actually, because it makes you realize your mortality.
That's a total mindfuck, and that's part of my problem. " What he would be doing right now
if he was not in KoRn
"Nothing's difficult for me, because I'm a rock god! (Just kidding!)"
"No, people have accused me of fucking making people want to kill people, or said that my
lyrics are a bad influence on kids, i just get the stuff out that i want to. if kids want to
do bad shit, that's not because of me or the music. it's because they're fucked-up in the first
place" About parents and peoples views on KoRn and their music.
"Because if I drink I die how bout that!" When asked about why he does not drink anymore.
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