M. Shadows Quotes

I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

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?

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

The power and influence of public opinion has increased, and the driving force of the nosiest elements of public opinion tends in excited times to consist, not of majorities, but of minorities.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

The press tends to reflect what's important to the country.

We are going to have to endure an imperial media with a government by public opinion poll.

What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.

I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

If you're 25, I could see how you could be tricked into thinking 'Benji' is my most successful record, but I've been doing this long before online magazines existed.

I like Cardi B!

I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry.

MTV ruined music for us.

I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'

We make pretty uninteresting reading, I suppose. I mean, we're just another group making records, aren't we?

I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic.

The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.

Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.