M. Shadows Quotes

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.

I think dance is my extension. There is nothing that I can imagine without dance.

Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

Music is something I can control.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

I express myself through my art.

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

My sketchbook became everything to me.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.