Anything Quote by John Dolmayan

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was…

— Lydia Lunch

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our…

— Dan Smith

I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on so many…

— Chord Overstreet

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life…

— Nicolas Godin

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing.…

— Zacky Vengeance

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

— Craig Finn

We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.

— Lauren Jauregui

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired…

— Carrie Brownstein

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

— Adam Rich

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

— Andy Biersack

We didn't want it to end up in discussions where we would talk about whether this song needed to be more metal, whether I…

— Maria Brink