15 Quotes by Max Bemis

I'm not smart enough to know how to really fix things. I just know that, in trying, we've found family, we've found home, we've found some strange splendor.

I’m living a life until I die so there will be no shortage of things to sing about.

Cut the crap. Just don’t try to be anything that you aren’t, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just be honest and write from the heart almost to an awkward degree, at least that’s what works for me.

You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do.

There is that small chance I’ll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else’s green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn’t tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

I used to download a lot of music, and I understand it in this economy, but personally I buy my music. It feels good to be able to support a band you like. Plus, it’d be really hypocritical if I were still doing that, since I really hope people are buying and experiencing my music.