Sonny Sandoval Quotes

I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

It's silly to throw things out or label things. You know, is U2 a Christian band, or was Johnny Cash a Christian country singer? I don't know, but they're pretty open about their faith.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

We never claimed to be a Christian band; we just were outspoken about our faith. It's not like we knew there was a scene.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

P.O.D. kind of built that brand name. We came out and have been open about our faith. We've always been a positive band in a world that's pretty crazy and wild.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

There is... a greater sense of divine purpose when we're playing at all-Christian rock shows. In clubs or bars, we know that the audience primarily came to see a show, so we try not to get preachy and instead let the music do most of the talking.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.