Matt Skiba Quotes

We all have our inner demons.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

There's a lot of insecurities and I think that's being human. There's highs and lows and it's about navigating through that.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.