Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I had 8-tracks when I was a kid.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Rock 'n' roll says, 'Hey, man, this is where you can be normal,' and then after a while you grow up and…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I wanted to be Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I'm a huge Tchad Blake fan.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I think that's what propelled our band, the fact that we put on something that was visibly attractive to people and then…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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