American Quotes

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.

But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.