Jack Barakat Quotes

#1. We should recognize how in a culture where each person wants to be bearer of his or her own subjective truth, it becomes difficult for citizens to devise a common plan which transcends individual gain and personal ambitions.

Pope Francis

#2. 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

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

Jack Barakat

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

Jack Barakat

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

Jack Barakat

#6. If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

Jacques Delors

#8. Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Meher Baba

#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. I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

Mads Mikkelsen

#12. Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Willa Cather

#13. O!" Sunny shrieked.
"O!" Klaus agreed.
"O!" Sunny insisted.
"Oh!" Klaus cried. "I see what you mean! ...

Lemony Snicket

#14. 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

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

Jack Barakat

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

Jack Barakat

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Jack Barakat

#21. Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

David Agus

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

Jack Barakat

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

Jack Barakat

#28. There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

Paul Greengrass

#29. Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.

Jimmy Kimmel

#30. Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.

Hilary Mantel

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

Jack Barakat

#32. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow

Jack Kerouac

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Jack Barakat

#37. An artist without an audience is like a jar without jelly. There doesn't always need to be much jelly in the jar, nevertheless a jar without jelly would feel jealous and empty.

Kevin Focke

#38. 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