Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Skiba - Page 2

Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.

I'm the die-hard that still goes out to buy records.

I'm from the MTV generation.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

We have this song called 'Radio,' and I wrote that song when we needed one more song for a record. So I went back into the other room and wrote it in 20 minutes.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.

Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.

We certainly are proud of our punk-rock heritage, but when people who like other kinds of music are into your band, it's flattering.

Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.

I see kids in Cradle of Filth shirts at our shows, which is awesome.

I like even numbers.

We have the best fans in the world. A lot of artists say that, but in this case, it's actually fact.

I want recording to be fun.

I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.

It feels really good to be doing Blink justice. Stepping on stage for the first show was pretty crazy. I've been skydiving several times, and that's the closest thing I can compare it to. Such a beautiful rush.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

I haven't eaten an animal in over twenty years!

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.

Orange County encompasses a large area that has a lot of Alkaline Trio fans.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

I dropped out of arts school because I didn't wanna stare at a computer all day - I get headaches.

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.

I miss the videos that are short films, back when MTV played videos all day.

I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

I honestly couldn't have asked for or expected the amount of love and support I've received from a large majority of Blink's fans.

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

There are things about this country that are horrible; there's things about this country that are beautiful. I've been almost everywhere, and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.

I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there's a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population; then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off.

When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."

I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.

I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.