Davey Havok Quotes

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

People don't expect me to make pop music.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

Some people think I'm crazy, but I'm just a normal dude that loves music.

I love the idea of being on stage and people thinking they know who Michael Ball is, they've got an image and then not knowing and going: who's that? I mean, that's the best compliment ever.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

People presume that just because I am Shahid Kapoor's brother, I must have studied in an international school, gone out on foreign vacations, and had a certain kind of upbringing. But the truth is quite different, and I am very proud of where I come from.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

We so love to stereotype people in this country - I can relate to that myself as I've experienced it. By taking on challenges over the years, I've tried to show people I'm not just some 'posh boy' and that there's far more to me.

I don't see myself as exotic.

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize me.