Quotes from Andrew W.K.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

Meeting someone who likes what I've made is like discovering a brother or sister.

Usually, two or three hours after getting offstage, I'll begin the eating process: usually carbohydrates, protein, and fat.

There's basically filth everywhere, and there's no way to escape it.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

The more we focus on what everyone else is doing wrong, the less energy we have to fix what we're doing wrong.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

Even though there are so many different 'kinds' of music - different textures, different timbres, different attitudes - there is something divine at the core of all music.

I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano.

You just have to set a goal and go for it.

Try to imagine that you're the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It's more than self-awareness; it's the ability to access this super-intelligence.

To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and reflects that, then that's an achievement.

Life changes, and thus, partying changes, and what it means to party evolves as well.

I think all of our concerts, really, as parties. It's a performance for sure. It's not a recital. It's a celebration of that music.

Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.

If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.

'Music Is Worth Living For' is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It's also me pleading with myself to recognize music's eternal power and glory, in the face of hardship and pain.

My goal is never to tone down.

Being OK means you're not sad, and you're not incredibly happy. You're content. You're OK. And that's the ideal place to be, to be able to say, 'I'm OK.'

Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that's shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there's power there, people reaching toward each other and toward truth. Any mechanism, any resource that we can use to further that reach, is part of the human destiny.

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

Sometimes if I do radio interviews or certain kinds of interviews or things that would require me to travel, then I'll get a nice car ride. Someone will take me, drive me to that place, and I'll actually get to see around.

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the melody, the notes, the rhythm - music for the sake of its own beauty, with nothing more required to express itself.