Mija Quotes

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Life at best is bittersweet.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I really pride myself in being able to combine soft and hard characteristics. If I do a leather jacket, then it will be with a really pretty feminine blouse underneath.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

Given a choice I want to do a yin and yang tattoo on the middle of my chest and right next to my heart.

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.