25 Davey Havok Quotes on Music

Davey Havok quotes on music

1. Interviewer: This band has always been able to communicate with its fanbase, I mean, you've always been huge within what it is the spectators do as well.

2. Interviewer: AFI stands for A Fire Inside. What's your favorite alternate definition?

3. Davey: I don't know, who would you want to tour with? Jade: Backstreet Boys, N*Sync... Davey: Britney Spears, maybe. Jade: LFO. Interviewer: Yeah. Only good bands. Davey: Yeah.

6. Kerrang : What's the best way you've heard you died? Davey: A heroin overdose, here in London. That was the most real one because that made it all the way back to the United States and caused our booking agent there to call our booking agent here to make sure I was okay. They often kill me of cancer, which I really don't like. Then there was the one that Claudio from Coheed and Cambria tackled me and killed me. Adam: What were you doing!? Davey: Playing football I guess. And I died, which sucks.

13. Erica Palmer: How do you feel about your younger fans? I was told by a fan that because I'm a 15-year-old sXe kid, I have no business listening to AFI. Davey: That's absurd. I'M a fifteen year old sXe kid...er...just older...a lot older.

14. Geoff: Yeah, I run Key Lime Pie Records. So, unless people give me money, I pay for everything myself and I get nothing in return!! Davey: You get a kiss every once in a while. Geoff: Not from you!!! Davey: I try.

15. Maybe we'll win another VMA if I die, like for sure.

21. Yeah, I can't play a thing at all. I cannot play an instrument. I do a lot of 'nah-nah-nah-doo-doo-doo' kinda stuff.

22. Interviewer: How did you learn to sing? Davey: I did? I don't know, I've been singing since I was five years old at family functions. I used to visit my great grandparents at their house in PA, and my relatives would pay me to sing old 1920's songs into a wooden spoon. I was between the ages of 3-5 years old.

35. Interviewer: Has Davey's monster in his neck surfaced recently? And what's his name? Davey: He doesn't have a name. He's gone. Forever. Interviewer: Would you care to elaborate as to what the monster in the neck actually was? Davey: It's just gone. Yeah it's just gone. It's gone. Interviewer: I'm getting the distinct impression that you really don't want to talk about the monster in your neck. Davey: Yeah.

39. If you're gonna come up here and sing with me, don't sing the wrong words in my ear because that really fucks me up.

40. [On Pink Floyd] Maybe I never gave them a chance. But when I grew up, hippies listened to Pink Floyd! And I just can't ever get over that. I can't deny my roots. I'm not a big fan of fuckin' hippies. To me, listening to Pink Floyd is like listening to the Grateful Dead.

43. I experienced one of my most starstruck moments at the Oasis show. Now, there are a handful of people who will get me starstruck, but generally, I'm able to handle myself because if I meet them it's at a place where I wouldn't be surprised to do so. I did not expect to see Trent Reznor in Las Vegas at this Oasis show, so when I did, I had a little episode. Needless to say I totally dorked out and fan-boyed all over the accommodating gentleman for about 4.5 seconds before letting him be free of me. He was cool. It was nifty. Bowie, you're next.

47. Unfortunately, we forgot to use a cowbell but some of the stuff you mentioned might show up here and there. Fuck, we totally should have used a cowbell.

48. As you get older you will gain a bit more control over everything. Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can't find them at first, find good music and fall into it, let it hold you until they come. I truly hope you enjoy the new record.

57. It wasn't supposed to be pink vinyl; it's supposed to be peppermint vinyl, so it's supposed to look like one of those peppermint candies with the red and white swirlies. They fucked it up so it's pink. What's the name of that pressing plant? Well, whatever it is... don't use it! You'll be on Frilly Pink and you'll be forced to buy flowers from Adama's Flower Shop.

71. Whether it's good or bad, it's our best album.

72. We're pretty! We are though, we're a good-looking band.

84. Oh, please! I wish I had her body! [when called a Madonna impersonator]

92. I've actually been meaning to point something out for a while now but it keeps slipping my mind. Just in case someone has misled you to believe otherwise, crowd surfing sucks. I would leave it plain and simple like that but, for fear of someone confusing the statement to be only a commentary against aggressive behavior at shows, I shall further clarify. Not to be confused with crowd crawling to sing along, the dying art of stylistic stage diving or the evermore rare head walking, crowd surfing is a passive, non emotive, 'Hey mom look at me and how wild I think I am.' behavior. While kick boxing, slamming, singing along and the like are all visceral and emotional responses to music, crowd surfing is, simply, weak. Always has been. There is really no better way to cheapen a live performance than to float like a happy little cloud atop the hands of discomforted showgoers. For all those aghast, having been misinformed and tricked into thinking it was cool, or far out, or what ever you crazy kids might call it today, FEAR NOT for you are not too far gone! We at the church of HolylChristCrowdSurfingSucks welcome you with loving arms. Now you know...and you know what GI Joe says about knowing. That is my public service announcement for today.

99. Davey- Yeah, they'll listen to it, and if it says something crazy, they'll say, 'Oh, we can't play this. This is too much for the people to handle.' There are some exceptions to the rule. There are bands like Tool, or Smashing Pumpkins. Rage Against the Machine. Nine Inch Nails. What other bands have valid things to say? Adam: Slipknot. Davey: Slipknot??? I don't know what the hell they're saying! Adam: They want to take over the world.

103. [On the annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concert thrown by KROQ] That show was fantastic - our fifty minutes seemed like five. They had spinning stages and tens of thousands of voices. All we ask for next time is a catwalk.

111. Interviewer: If you were not rock musicians, what would be your second pick of all? Davey: um,he(Pointing to Hunter) would have been a TV repair---Hunter:TV, VCR repair. Davey: And then, I would of sold the TV's and VCR's that he fixes. Hunter: We got it all worked out. Davey: Yeah.

115. Interviewer: What comes to mind when you think of A Fire Inside? Davey: That's my band and that's my life: AFI'.

118. We started the band out of love for music and the ethos of the scene we then became a part of. I do remember when I told my Mom we'd started a band and she said 'you didn't ask if you could start a band.' Even then I laughed.