Quotes from Andy Biersack

I'm real pleased and humbled by the support that the fans show.

The older I got, I started to realize more it's not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good; you just kind of carve your own way, and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.

My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.

I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

The Misfits skull was my second tattoo, and the Danzig was my third.

You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life.

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

I make more time to have fun in the life I'm living before I'm worm food.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

The story of my life publicly has been told through 'Alternative Press.' Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for 'AP' for a long time - I've been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.