Matt Skiba Quotes

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

If you spend long enough with a bunch of guys, things will inevitably start to rankle. You're going to hate the way the singer comes into the room and opens the curtains 'cos he's done it too fast or whatever.

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

We're closer friends in Stone Sour than I am with the guys in Slipknot and that makes life a lot easier. I'm not trying to take anything away from Slipknot.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was in the band, Kirk was the guy who was often in the middle, and it was important at that time. And now I feel like sometimes I'm the guy that's in the middle between not just James and Lars, but even Kirk.

When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, 'In this band there are no sidemen,' and when I joined the band, it was still the same. There were some power struggles emerging, because Henley and Frey had sung all the hits at that point.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.

A lot of bands don't really like each other. I read an Interpol interview the other day, it was a really good interview because it was showing a different aspect of a band. They don't really like each other - they work together and they kinda exist together and that's how they like it. They're like, "we didn't get into this band looking for friends."

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

There is no love lost between us.

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.