A biography for Matt Skibahasn’t been written yet.
“For Alkaline Trio, Chicago is our hometown. The band started there. Even though we all live in different cities now, we still call Chicago home, and it's always really exciting to come back and play for our best crowd.”
“When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.”
“My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.”
“I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.”
“I like even numbers.”
“I consider myself a pagan and a witch.”
“I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.”
“We have the best fans in the world. A lot of artists say that, but in this case, it's actually fact.”
“In this day and age, though, no matter how many people you play for, if you're playing with a band like Blink, millions of people will see it thanks to YouTube and everything recording it.”
“There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.”
“We certainly are proud of our punk-rock heritage, but when people who like other kinds of music are into your band, it's flattering.”
“I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.”
“They are one of my favorite bands and one of my first musical loves: Devo.”
“I think I'm a man about the things I need to be a man about, but I get paid to play, pretty much. I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.”
“When I agreed to do the Blink shows, I said that I'd do it as long as they were willing to practise every day.”
“I have never played in a ska band.”
“Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.”
“Death isn't something that should necessarily be glorified, but I also don't think it's something that people need to be afraid of. It's just the way it is. There's nothing we can do about it.”
“The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.”
“It's never been about what we want others to see: it's about what we want to see; it's about what we want to do. We only have a career because of our fans, but we have to keep making music for the reason we started making music.”