Matt Quotes

Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey.

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

The songs that give you the most trouble become your best songs.

So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."

SEO is not synonymous to JUNK E-MAIL.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

I've always loved dinosaurs.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson

I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.