Joe Quotes

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

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.

The nerds are running the world now.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

I love existing in pre big bang conditions.

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.

People for the most part can smell lies.

I like LA because it has a giant supply of great comedians.

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.

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

If Tyson Griffin was a girl, I'd say he has a badonkadonk.

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

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

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

That's a great golden nugget that's going in my tactical toolbox

After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.

Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black.

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

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

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.

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

If you don't go for your dreams, who will?

The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight.

Start each day off on the right foot.

Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

Your enemies are people too, and maybe they don't have to be enemies if they're that much like you.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

Sometimes in life, there are no second chances