Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
Quotes to Explore
-
We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
-
My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
-
I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
-
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
-
I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
-
A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
-
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
-
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
-
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
-
You have to be proud of who you are.
-
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-
I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
-
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
-
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
-
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
-
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
-
Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
-
My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
-
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
-
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
-
I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
