Quotes from Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I like to think I take care of my body a little bit more, I'm not screaming as much.

At The Drive In came out in a period of time when Stereophonics and Limp Bizkit were huge. And there was this dark grey void - I'm not saying we filled it - but we were just a different colour at the time.

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

I'm a huge Tchad Blake fan.

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.

I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.

It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.

I had foot problems, and I ended up having to get surgery.

The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we do, even though it seems pointless to us to explain it. The rest of the time we just do what we do and don't worry about it.

I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.

At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.

Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person.

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.

In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.

We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.

'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

I think a lot of people could do with buying a Flying Burrito Brothers record - it does wonders for you.

I've still got a lot of tantrums to throw.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.