J. M. Barker Quotes

I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Give me B movies or give me death!

Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

If you are ever attacked in the street do not shout 'help!', shout 'Fire!'. People adore fires and always come rushing. Nobody will come if you shout 'help.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

Always, worlds within worlds.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.

I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.