Trey Quotes

#1. My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Trey Anastasio

#2. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Trey Songz

#3. Change is a natural form of progression.

Trey Songz

#4. There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

Trey Anastasio

#5. Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

Trey Parker

#6. You look happy, sweetie. Did you just eat a cherry pie?

Olivia Cunning

#7. While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

Trey Gowdy

#8. We have to make the stars align for us now
find a way for us now to get burned for being together. - Trey to Kricket

Amy A. Bartol

#9. Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Trey Gowdy

#10. I'm Trey. And you are ... ?"
"Intolerant of jackasses who fuck with my female.

Larissa Ione

#11. Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

Trey Gowdy

#12. I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Trey Anastasio

#13. The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Trey Anastasio

#14. The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.

Trey Songz

#15. My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Trey Parker

#16. Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

Trey Gowdy

#17. It's like you're surfing ... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.

Trey Anastasio

#18. I'm very much in work mode, and that can be very difficult for someone to deal with. I dedicate so much of myself to my work that I even take a back seat to that sometimes. My mother says that Tremaine takes a back seat to Trey Songz.

Trey Songz

#19. I definitely feel like I'm a really good playmaker, a really smart point guard that can lead his team and win.

Trey Burke

#20. I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Trey Parker

#21. Yes, I'm an asshole, but I'm your asshole now, princess, so learn to deal with it.

Gabbie S. Duran

#22. If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

Trey Gowdy

#23. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Trey Gowdy

#24. I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.

Trey Gowdy

#25. Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.

Trey Songz

#26. Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

Trey Parker

#27. So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

Trey Parker

#28. I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

Trey Parker

#29. If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

Trey Parker

#30. Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

Trey Songz

#31. This is a great idea," said Trey. "You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.

Richelle Mead

#32. Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Trey Parker

#33. There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Trey Parker

#34. Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Trey Parker

#35. What's wrong, Eric? Aggie asked.
"He got his period,"Trey said.

Olivia Cunning

#36. Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central.

Trey Parker

#37. Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand.

Olivia Cunning

#38. If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

Trey Parker

#39. I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There's not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I'm still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.

Trey Burke

#40. I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

Trey Parker

#41. I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

Trey Anastasio

#42. She stays," Trey replies easily. "With you . . . half naked?" "With me . . . half naked.

Amy A. Bartol

#43. Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

Trey Gowdy

#44. I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.

Trey Gowdy

#45. I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.

Trey Songz

#46. I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

Trey Parker

#47. When we come in, Trey is sitting up in the bed, him arm is a sling and a shadow of stubble on his face. "It's about time," he says. He's got the look of a stoner on his face, and I he's got a morphine drip going. Guess mom and Dad don't think HE'LL get addicted. Eye roll.

Lisa McMann

#48. I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

Trey Parker

#49. I listen to Gov. Romney have to apologize because he has been successful.

Trey Gowdy

#50. I listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Old school songs. Rick Ross. I listen to a guy ASAP Rocky. I like different kinds of music. I always have. It motivates me before games ... A Tupac playlist or a Meek Mill playlist. It varies.

Trey Burke

#51. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

Trey Songz

#52. As I'm reading Katherine's historical diaries, every now and then I'll see a question that Katherine asked, like, 'Who is the Infanta?' or 'What is a simoleon?'" "In SimCity, a simoleon is money," Trey interjected.

Rysa Walker

#53. Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Trey Parker

#54. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Trey Anastasio

#55. Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.

Trey Songz

#56. To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over again until you either figure it out or you discover a multiplicity of other cool tricks along the way.

Trey Ratcliff

#57. I own more pairs of Calvin Klein underwear than I can count. At any given time, I probably have 50 to 60 pairs on deck. I travel with an entire suitcase of underwear and t-shirts, and they're all Calvin Klein.

Trey Songz

#58. The most punk-rock thing you can do in L.A. is to say 'George Bush is fucking awesome' instead of talking about how lame it is that he's fighting for oil.

Trey Parker

#59. Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

Trey Anastasio

#60. When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado's a redneck with a gun and all this stuff.

Trey Parker

#61. I was a big Broadway fan for a while.

Trey Parker

#62. What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

Trey Anastasio

#63. It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

Trey Parker

#64. He's putting a lot of cards down on the table," Trey said thoughtfully, taking a step forward. "And Matthias is never one to share something for free if he could charge for it."
"And you're not normally one to think for himself," Matthias said pleasantly. "I suppose we're all growing as people.

Scott Tracey

#65. Other brands I like besides Versace ... Tom Ford makes incredible suits. I love the glasses as well. I have a plethora of Tom Ford shades. Who else do I like? Dolce & Gabbana, Dior Homme.

Trey Songz

#66. When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.

Trey Anastasio

#67. I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Trey Anastasio

#68. I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

Trey Parker

#69. Trey, I thought that the Znou was beautiful and I wanted to keep it," I say, explaining myself to him. "I wasn't trying to kill myself. If I get suicidal, you'll know 'cuz I'll be dead. The only thing I'm feeling right now is homicidal, so watch your back.

Amy A. Bartol

#70. There's a DVD called 'The Secret.' It's like visualization and meditation, certain methods I use before games, visualizing the games before they happen.

Trey Burke

#71. Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

Penn Jillette

#72. As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

Trey Songz

#73. Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.

Trey Parker

#74. I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They're really nice people. They're so Disney. They're so Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Trey Parker

#75. The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Trey Gowdy

#76. You need one of those recap sequences," Trey says. "Like, 'Hi, I'm Kate. Here are a few things you might need to know.'"
Charlayne smiles. "Previously on The Vampire Diaries."
"Or," Ben says, "' The Timeline So Far,' like on Supernatural.

Rysa Walker

#77. So I started running through our weaponry to distract myself. I had my stun gun. Jonah had a pseudosword, and Aaron had a really cute butt. Not that his butt would be useful in de-botting Trey, but it's always good to have a full catalog of your strengths before going into battle.

Carrie Harris

#78. I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

Trey Gowdy

#79. My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

Trey Burke

#80. I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

Trey Parker

#81. I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.

Trey Gowdy

#82. I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

Trey Gowdy

#83. Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.

Trey Songz

#84. Has Trey ever told you that he's a virgin?" Reagan asked, stroking Ethan's hair with one hand and Trey's with the other.
Ethan lifted his head and snorted with laughter. "Is today opposite day?

Olivia Cunning

#85. I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

Trey Parker

#86. I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

Trey Parker

#87. Border patrol," a uniformed officer announced as he stepped on the bus. "Anything to declare?"
"I declare that this sucks," Trey said, shuffling past him.
"Hey," Eric said to the office and pointed at Trey. "I saw that guy shove something up his ass.

Olivia Cunning

#88. Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Trey Parker

#89. We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.

Trey Anastasio

#90. It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly ... mind-numbingly stupid.

Trey Gowdy

#91. All the religions are super funny to me.

Trey Parker

#92. If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Trey Gowdy

#93. A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

Trey Burke

#94. Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.

Trey Songz

#95. Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's as clueless as you are. If I didn't care about your virtue so much, I'd actually probably give him a lecture on 'how' to try something." -Trey, pg. 70

Richelle Mead

#96. As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously ... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.

Trey Anastasio

#97. Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Trey Parker

#98. Hippies, hippies ... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Trey Parker

#99. I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

Trey Parker

#100. It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

Trey Parker