Quotes from Fred Durst

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

I don't fight people for fun.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

I'm a sentimental guy.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

I want to make timeless movies.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff.

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

I love jazz music and sad music.