Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print 'EST 19XX' on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and 'wave the white towel,' so that is why our flag is black. We never give up - never surrender. EST means 'Everyone Stands Together.' The '19XX' is to represent any age.
Machine Gun Kelly
I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.
I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.
Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.
There is no VIP. We're all the same.
Honestly, I look in the mirror, and I'm not the greatest looking kid.
I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.
Being a rock star rocks.
You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.
Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.
Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.
I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.
The last thing I want to do is be complacent.
I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.
When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.
I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.
As soon as 'General Admission' came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.
I have Nineties music oozing out of my pores. What made rock & roll back then is that it was uncensored. It was raw and dark. Think of 'Something in the Way,' by Nirvana - he was telling everyone how he felt.
I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.
As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.
When I was running away, I didn't have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX's voice or Eminem's voice or Tupac's voice.
I was a huge punker growing up.
I'm a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.
Fame is the weirdest thing ever.
I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.
I was really excited about 'Nerve' with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts.
I think I've watched and been around so many people that are of a high celebrity grade that I've attempted to soak in every kind of way to deal with fame.
I want to keep the whole 'Lace Up' movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.
They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.
I'm not that great of a speaker. I don't like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that's how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that.
I love surrealism.
I would never think twice about marching next to my brother for an issue we both believe in.
I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, 'cause I've watched so many impossible things happen.
I've never been a bandwagon Clevelander. I've been talking about Cleveland and holding up Cleveland since before we were champions.
Every time I perform, I always try to have that 'wow' factor.
I recognize fans at every show.
I'm fortunate to have a baby girl who's super into everything that I say and do and really cooperative and just fun to be around. I couldn't imagine having a rebellious kid like me.
It seems like I'm one of those people that has the personality where, if I win an award, I wake up the next day, and I'm like 'Oh, but I didn't win this award though, or this didn't happen.'
Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!
New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.
Economics runs the world.
It's crazy. Even doing that one episode of 'Catfish,' I get people recognizing me for it who didn't even know my music.
My time on 'Roadies' gave me serenity and space.
Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.
I write all my hooks.
I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.
I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.
My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.
Is there someone who can play guitar better than me technically? One hundred percent. But does anyone look better playing a guitar in my generation? Absolutely not.
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
