Matt Skiba

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

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I think people hear the words 'transcendental meditation' and 'paganism,' and that's almost worse because it's real. Those are real things. Those are absolute energies. Satanism is like Halloween. Transcendental meditation and having a realization of how we really are - whether we want to be or not - we live in a pagan culture.

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Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.

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I'm in Alkaline Trio; I guess I get to rip off myself. I give myself permission.

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We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.

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I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet before the band became a career, and I've just always been a cyclist - I BMX'd, and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears, which I still have.

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Orange County encompasses a large area that has a lot of Alkaline Trio fans.

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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.

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I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.

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With Alkaline Trio, we are who we are. We never really feel too confined, but when we get together, there is an Alkaline Trio sound, and when I go off and do something on my own, there is an element of freedom that I don't have with the Trio.

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The Sekrets record is very much me, and Dan's Emergency Room is very much him. And then Alkaline Trio is very much ours.

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Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.

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I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.

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I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

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