Andy Biersack Quotes

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.

I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break from the radio and MTV - at least in my generation, they did, and MTV isn't really a thing anymore. And you discover something that defines you, that is outside of the mainstream.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

I've never been cool.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

So many young kids are fickle when it comes to music. There comes a time when you're not cool again.

When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It's almost a slight rebellion; you don't want to listen to what your parents listen to anymore; you want to find your own music. That, for me, was hearing the Fugees for the first time.