Andrew McMahon Quotes

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

...You know what I mean?

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they're doing so.

People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

The freeway is just like veins without a heart.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.