To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.
Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
When all else fails...be a rockstar
Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball.
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
We put the fun back into dysfunctional
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin