105 Quotes by M. Shadows

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.

One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new?

The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

The song 'Paradigm' talks about nanobots - and how they can potentially be used to cure diseases and help you live forever. But how much of a human being would you be at that point? If you're 70 percent machine and 30 percent human, are you going to lose yourself?

For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.

All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.