Quotes from Machine Gun Kelly

Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!

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.

My time on 'Roadies' gave me serenity and space.

Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you've never heard. She's so heavy into the underground music scene. When she's speaking on music, she means it.

There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small in the wake of someone like Nelson Mandela.

I was really excited about 'Nerve' with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts.

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

Being a rock star rocks.

I don't want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn't want to do what the artist's saying. I want to be so in awe of the artist that I'm literally jumping up and down, even if I've got on brand new Louboutins.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

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.

My memory stops at 14.

I'm a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

When I came into the industry, and as I continue to be in it, part of my authenticity is the fact that I speak my mind.

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.'

There is no VIP. We're all the same.

'Cleveland' went viral, but it didn't necessarily pop. I didn't have that support. I didn't have a deal when I made 'Cleveland' or anything like that.