To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I would feel weird if I wasn't able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
At The Drive In came out in a period of time when Stereophonics and Limp Bizkit were huge. And there was this… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that at the end of the day, it's only you yourself that creativity comes from. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
It's hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its an insult… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share
