Mike Gordon Quotes

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

I'm in the greatest band in the world, period. End of story. We're the best.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I'm not hot. I'm great.

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.