Davey Havok Quotes

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

My kind of music is probably not going to shoot to the top, but I'm fine with that. There's still enough rock'n'roll soldiers.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

With the 'Silly Boy' track, I mean, people knew about it, but it wasn't really like, 'oh that's Eva Simons.' But when 'Take Over Control' came out, that's when people started to get interested in me personally, which is great because it was something I really believed in.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

I didn't even think my music was good enough to get on the radio in Australia.

Priyanka and Red One made a great record that we think will stand on its own. People won't buy the music just because she is who she is. We want them to buy it because it's good.

We strive to have new records. We strive to have new songs on the radio. That feels good that we can gain those new fans and still bring out our fans that have been with us for some of the ride or all of the ride.

We didn't really have a fan base to begin with. We kind of had one with 'The Sing-Of,' but it was relatively small.

Country radio has been extremely good to me, which I am extremely grateful for and and means a bunch. But there is room for many other people.

I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.