John 5 Quotes

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing I wanted from life.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was 14 years old. You become so involved in something when you start in it that young; you're doing it purely out of love of what you're doing and a belief in it.

I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.

My life revolves around music.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.