Quotes from Matt Skiba

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

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

Jesus was not born on December 25th. There's carbon evidence of it. That freaks people out.

I've done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can't really say that we're friends, we're friendly acquaintances.

When I agreed to do the Blink shows, I said that I'd do it as long as they were willing to practise every day.

I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.

I'm thankful for everything good and bad that happened to our band.

The first line of the song is always the hardest thing to write. And then after that, the song should - unless it sucks - it should write itself.

The Ramones all hate each other, and they did it for decades. I wouldn't be able to do that. That would be like working at the bank or something.

Pennywise are legends and gentlemen and maniacs.

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.

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

A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

I want recording to be fun.

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

To worship the devil, you have to believe in it first.

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

With every inch of my energy, I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.

Being on Epic, it wasn't like we got signed to a multi-million-dollar deal.

We've had kids come to our shows and ask us why we hate Jesus. It's like, 'Well, we don't hate Jesus at all. We just think religion is silly, and it's a really popular thing, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with it.'

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.