72 Quotes by Matt Berninger

Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

I can never turn a tour into a vacation.

The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.