“I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life. I know that isn’t always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it’s hard for people to rise above things.”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.comTagged: Happiness, self-harm, Rising Above
“I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend. I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows an…”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.comTagged: Agony, Outcast, Negative
“We like to believe that when we’re young, and we have this idea that we want to fight for something, that it will be that way forever, when in reality, sometimes it will change.”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.comTagged: Youth, Fighting, Change
“It was a great cause of pain for me, and because of that, I didn’t really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren’t interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.comTagged: high school, Loneliness
“When I was growing up in school, I wasn’t the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different. I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me. It wasn’t that I thought…”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.comTagged: nerd, high school, bullying