Johnny Christ Quotes

My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Lilith Fair was a great experience for us the first time we played it. We were... not a new band, but a new band as far as mainstream kind of airplay or success.

I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.

At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.

When you're doing things like Glastonbury main stage, and there's 80,000 people and your hits are going off, it's at those moments you sit back and breathe and take it in, man, cos it might never happen again.

That's my dream - to play Coachella... not as a guest but as me!

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

I didn't want the band to end, it was as simple as that.

People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.

I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was a mile away from the stage, and I swear to God, I could feel her energy.

You can only absorb when you look back at photos: like when we played Coachella, and there are thousands of people in the audience, and you just walk on stage.

I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.

The crowd at Download Festival always welcomes us with a lot of energy so I can't wait to perform there again!

Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me.

Casting is a big deal.

My biggest moments have been in Philly - I met Jay-Z and Beyonce in Philly, I did the Powerhouse in Philly.

Winning two in a row doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you haven't done it in three months, it's a big deal.

I just love being in this band.

Cardi actually says stuff. Nicki just has attitude. So what. Big deal.

It's a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.

I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002.

We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.