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.
— Fred Durst
I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.
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'm a real director.
Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.
I don't fight people for fun.
I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff.
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.
I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.
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.
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.
My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
I'm a sentimental guy.
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.'
That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
I love collaborating.
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.'
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.
I want to make timeless movies.
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 am not a hater.
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.
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.
I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.
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.
Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.
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.
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 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.
I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
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.
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.
Directing a film is a lot of work.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.
I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.
When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
I've always wanted to make movies.
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 a romantic guy.
I'm always looking for new talent.
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.
