I obsessively wanted to be in bands. I was probably fourteen when I got my first bass it was my friend`s brother`s, and we stole it. I was really into the idea that we could just play basement shows. The name of the first band was First Born, and it was t...
Pete Wentz
If you know me you know how uncool I am. I stutter, wear bad clothes, make bad jokes, make conversation uncomfortable, the list goes on. Thank you for making me feel okay.
Pete Wentz
On John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten: "John`s just jealous because I`m the brains of the group. I`ve written all the songs, even from the beginning when I wasn`t in the group."
Sid Vicious
We`re sick of hearing people say that band is so gay" or "those guys are fags". Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you want to say something`s shitty, say it`s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes!"
Pete Wentz
[on the dismissal of his KISS band-mates Peter Criss and Ace Frehley in the early 1980s] They were let go for being into alcohol and worse drugs, pure and simple. I love both those guys to death. But I didn`t want them to die on tour.
Gene Simmons
I can be unhappy and I can be happy, I am just one human being that thinks about my life and tries to figure myself out. When I write about feeling ****** it`s not because I want to put on black nail varnish and when I write songs about being happy it`s n...
Pete Wentz
The first thing I did when I met Shannon Tweed, or Cher, was say: `Here, there are no skeletons in Gene Simmons`s closet.` I refuse to lead a Dr Jekyll-and-Mr Hyde life. There are DJs who get caught with prostitutes, MPs with stockings on their head. It`s...
Gene Simmons
On what EMI thought the Sex Pistols were: "We weren`t the nice boys they thought we were. And, we weren`t nice boys, we were fuckin` nasty little bastards... and we still are.
Sid Vicious
When there are no more categorizations; when there are no more "niggers", when there are no more "whites", when there`s just "people", you know, when there`s no more "punks" when there`s no more "dirt", that is when everything is gonna be OK.
Sid Vicious
See, there`s the bands that you say you like to sound smart, and there`s the bands you say you like to get laid. And then there`s the bands you really listen to. -Rolling Stone Interview
Pete Wentz
[Talking about joining the Sex Pistols] I was getting my own group together; "The Flowers of Romance", and John (Lydon) said to me - there was this big hoo-haa, and Malcolm was saying "it`s all a big secret man, you know. Come down to this pub at such-and...
Sid Vicious
When I`m gone, on my tombstone I`d like `Thank you and goodnight`, because I have no regrets. The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We`re all passing through; the least we can do is be happ...
Gene Simmons
I was isolating myself further and further, and the more I isolated myself, the more isolated I`d feel. I wasn`t sleeping. I just wanted my head to shut off, like, I just wanted to completely stop thinking about anything at all. - Rolling Stone Magazine O...
Pete Wentz
You can`t argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it`s two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic (1997). I wasn`t crazy about the movie. But you know what?...
Gene Simmons
[on his children, Nick Simmons and Sophie Simmons] Why are they so funny and creative and charming and generous? Because I won`t stand for them being anything less, that`s why!
Gene Simmons