Synyster Gates Quotes

Maybe after my third album, I'll just go to uni. That would be really cool.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

Once I retire, I would definitely love to be a DJ. That would be fun.

I mean its cool that people appreciate fun stuff.

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

I've always had a plan for my music career.

Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.

Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.

I'm not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

I like making songs and playing '2K.'

Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it's great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That's the key.

Entertainment is there to improve people's quality of life. After your basic needs, there's entertainment.

We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

I've always wanted to sing and to be an entertainer. After high school, I moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles and started songwriting. But I didn't really get serious until then.

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I want to do my own music. I have been there and done that, so I am not there to achieve that any more. I just want to put my music out there, and if people listen it, okay; if they don't, then fine.

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.