Matt Skiba famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.
-- Matt Skiba

#Sunshine #Shoes #Black
I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.
-- Matt Skiba

#Kids #Years #Healthy
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."
-- Matt Skiba

#Growing Up #Bunnies #Want
I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.
-- Matt Skiba

#Crazy #Kids #Water
The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
-- Matt Skiba

#Stars #Racing #Bunnies
Skating is what got me into punk rock.
-- Matt Skiba

#Rocks #Skating #Punk
At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.
-- Matt Skiba

#Bmx #Motorcycle #Age
I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.
-- Matt Skiba

#Memories #Kids #Thinking
I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.
-- Matt Skiba

#Bmx #Spare Time #Bike
I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."
-- Matt Skiba

#Kids #Masters #Wanted
I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.
-- Matt Skiba

#Kids #Feels
I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.
-- Matt Skiba

#Gears #Way #Messengers
The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.
-- Matt Skiba

#Adventure #Bmx #Track
I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.
-- Matt Skiba

#Race #Ymca #Lakes

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