Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

I've been a vegan and a vegetarian for 15 years and I've always just quietly kept and values and my beliefs to myself. I didn't want to preach or be outspoken about all these things.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

Emotion is a full range of a spectrum, like colours. It's not just anger. How are you going to get that out with just a guitar and screaming? You need to explore everything else.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

The key to me recovering from drug addiction was figuring out why I was so upset and why I hated myself so much. I realised it was all to do with the way I was viewed by other people.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

What puts people off metal is they think it's all nutters and blood. We don't want to be seen that way.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the most powerful people in the world but they aren't going to do anything.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

I found myself reading about this 16-year-old kid inventing a micro-organism to save the ocean. It made me realise that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Even with all the damage and destruction, things can heal if we let them.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

The guitar shouldn't be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn't be important whether it's there or not. If it's important to you whether a guitar is there or not, you're weird.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is going to get better until we can make the people at the top see that there are changes to be made.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

We need to be our own heroes. We need a new way of looking at things. Greta Thunberg has shown us that. It's crazy, but this kid has proven that we can be our own leaders.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if something's happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

We try so hard to block out negative or dark thoughts, but sometimes embracing your demons is the most vitalizing thing you can do.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

Your favourite songs by your favourite bands are never the singles. It's when they've done exactly what they wanted without any compromise and not worried about the reaction.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

I like how our records go from super poppy to heavy then electronic, and next I'd like to make a bunch of records where each of them has a distinct vibe to it.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

You just want so badly to be the best version of what people are saying, you want to look like the covers you're on, but it's hard to do that everyday.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

When you're in a marriage, you can't leave just because you're arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don't realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

Oliver Sykes
Oliver Sykes

You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you've got everything you could ever want.