Quotes from Matt Skiba

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 went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

I love being in Blink!

I really like a lot of the old 2-tone ska. I definitely went through a phase where I was into The Specials and The Busters. But a lot of the ska revival - I never really have had an interest in that.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

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

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

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.

My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents' friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.

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

For me, it's about eating a bunch of fruit and exercising, which opens up the creativity, makes it easier to give ideas a chance and bubble to the surface. I'm no angel, but it helps me, as does hiking, heading to the ocean to catch some waves - for me, sweating it out is definitely good for the creative process.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

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

I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

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.

Dallas is a good town. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. It always nice to come back.

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.

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

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

The Devil is fun.

Rock n' roll is the Devil's music.

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.

The Church of Satan was something, aesthetically, that we were always really fascinated with and wanted to emulate. I think it's a good look.