Quotes from Andrew W.K.

I'm happy to be thought of as cool, but I never was cool. Everyone thought I was this complete moron and complete dork for the majority of my school years.

Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.

Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.

I really love Indian food, especially if you can get it spicy. Any food you can get spicy I really love, and Indian food is just so flavorful: a lot of onion, a lot of garlic.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.

At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.

This idea of the geek or the nerd, all that person really is - and I would consider myself one - is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.

I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There's stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.

I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

Food is a party; it's exciting. It should be a source of entertainment and nourishment. And just do everything you can to not let food become anything but fun. Let it be a source of pleasure, not anxiety or neuroses or stress.

Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously, like organizing little pieces of paper, cutting out things from magazines, and filing them away.

I don't think I'd really talked about politics - governmental politics specifically - very often, and it was a bit of a stretch for me to do so for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I'm not that well-versed or educated in politics.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that's why I got into it the first place.

I'm a guy who wants to party and have as many adventures as possible.

I feel very lucky that I've chosen to work in a style that is based on good vibes, and you tend to get good vibes in return. But I don't take it for granted. It was a choice.

I like big, flashy production and videos.

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.

In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.

I was just so fortunate to have parents who encouraged me to try things and do what I wanted.