Matt Skiba Quotes

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

I like the old '90s music.

I love '80s and '90s music.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.

I'm a '90s music kid.

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

I never really followed grunge.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Backstreet Boys, we don't stop. We just keep going.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school. It's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.

I'm a bit of a Fleetwood Mac girl. I also think you can't beat a bit of old school Girls Aloud to get in the mood for going out.