“I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.”

I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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

There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.

I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.

I just plug in and let go.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time…like me!

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.

It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

People always see the success but they never see what’s gone on before it. Everyone thinks it happens over night.

Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can meet like this.

I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.