Music Persona Quotes

With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

So many kids meet me and they get disappointed. They ask me to wear shades and behave in the way I do in my songs. Then I have to explain it to them that I am like this in real life, more composed, chilled out and cool.

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

I kind of want 'Mudboy' to just be only Sheck Wes, and 'Mudboy' is going to talk about how I became a Mudboy.

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

I want to put a face to my music, I don't want to be a faceless producer or faceless artist.

I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, 'Machine Gun Kelly' - it is very loud, and it says a lot.