Joe Quotes

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

All you need is a double barrel

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

Every studio needs a rubber chicken.

To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.

I can't grow a moustache.

Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest.

I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

Most people want their representatives to get something done.

I love existing in pre big bang conditions.

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

You want to talk about the word faggot because it really offends you? Well you're a douchebag.

If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake.

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail.

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.

People for the most part can smell lies.

The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.

Look inside, without anyone else's validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.