Quotes by Fred Durst

I want to make timeless movies.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

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

I love collaborating.

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

I am not a hater.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.

I'm a sentimental guy.

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

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.'

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

I'm always looking for new talent.

I love jazz music and sad music.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell -- like I do -- is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Prague is a dark place.

Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell -- like I do -- is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

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

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

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

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

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.

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

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

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.

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy -- your own brain.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

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

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy -- your own brain.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

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

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.

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

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.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

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

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.