Barakat Quotes

#1. Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

Willa Cather

#2. I don't love playing new songs in a festival environment. Because when it comes to a festival a lot of people probably won't know your band really well at all so playing more familiar songs is a little more conducive in having a better show.

Jack Barakat

#3. It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved

Vivian Reddy

#4. I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded.

Jack Barakat

#5. Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants.

Jack Barakat

#6. I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

Jack Barakat

#7. My band and I are brothers. Nothing can break us. With it 'till the end.

Jack Barakat

#8. Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

Barack Obama

#9. Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.

Jack Barakat

#10. Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.

Jack Barakat

#11. Sometimes I lose perspective, but it helps to stop and look around. I may not have it all, but I have more than enough. And enough, it seems, is more than most have ...

J.M. Darhower

#12. Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Maria Montessori

#13. Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.

Jack Barakat

#14. You don't always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That's life.

Jack Barakat

#15. I feel like blue jeans are kind of too 'country' for me.

Jack Barakat

#16. One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

Edmund White

#17. What-ifs are kind of like ex-boyfriends. The more attention you give them, the more likely they are to stalk you and show up in you bedroom closet when you are getting out of the shower.

Kristen Day

#18. I've never been to New Zealand, but I can imagine it's beautiful. I don't know much about New Zealand ... but I do know that I did watch 'Lord Of The Rings' so it looks really pretty.

Jack Barakat

#19. I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.

Jack Barakat

#20. I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes?

Jack Barakat

#21. What I do know is, I never plan on growing up inside.

Jack Barakat

#22. Do what makes you happy, think later.

Jack Barakat

#23. Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.

Jack Barakat

#24. I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.

Jack Barakat

#25. I have so much freedom to put whatever I want on a t-shirt, and it's cool because I get a lot of fan feedback so I like to see what kids like to wear and I like to use some of their ideas to make t-shirts.

Jack Barakat

#26. Nickelback walks into a bar ... there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

Dave Grohl

#27. Hey Bieber, I had the initials JB first.. Where's my 15%?

Jack Barakat

#28. I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Gwendoline Christie

#29. Wrestling is very similar to gay sex, but you don't have to wear condoms.

Jack Barakat

#30. We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Eugene O'Neill

#31. As we trust the Lord, we start "emptying" ourselves with things that tie us or entangle us in order to be filled by God's grace and the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.

Yilda B. Rivera

#32. We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Wendell Willkie

#33. Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

Jack Barakat

#34. I had to work from a young age.

Giancarlo Esposito

#35. We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

Carl Karcher

#36. The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.

Tabitha Suzuma

#37. The recording process [ for 'Dirty Work'] took longer than anticipated, because we kept going on tour in between the recording process to make sure that we were still pleasing all the fans across the world.

Jack Barakat

#38. Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

Jack Barakat

#39. I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison].

Jack Barakat