Wes Borland Quotations

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.

I have nothing to complain about.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world