Andrew W.K. Quotes & Sayings

You always have to take responsibility for the choices you made. Once you can come to that truth, it's a very satisfying and relieving feeling. You don't have to fight anymore, you just get to do. — Andrew W.K.

It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood. — Andrew W.K.

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

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons. — Andrew W.K.

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that — Andrew W.K.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience. — Andrew W.K.

They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff. — Andrew W.K.

It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself. — Andrew W.K.

What people refer to as nerds or geeks, all they really are is people who are passionate about what they like, and aren't afraid of it. To me, it's very frustrating when people are discourage from being enthusiastic about things. 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. — Andrew W.K.

There is an endorphin rush that comes when you puke. It's kind of like a runners wall. Once you cross that wall, once you cross that party wall and you puke, you do get a rush. There are good chemicals there. And also, you've made more room in your gut, in your stomach, in your gullet for more content, whether it be fluids or foods. — Andrew W.K.

I feel very emotional and party. — Andrew W.K.

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. — Andrew W.K.

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny. — Andrew W.K.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza. — Andrew W.K.

I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more. — Andrew W.K.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so. — Andrew W.K.

The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice. It completely takes over your body and pushes you, like it was designed to do. I'm constantly surrounded by music, energy, and experiences that put me in that state of cheer. — Andrew W.K.

There's no drug that I would never take again. — Andrew W.K.

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood. — Andrew W.K.

That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable. — Andrew W.K.

If no one else has ever told you this before, I will tell it to you one more time and hope you believe it and never forget it for the rest of your life: You deserve to be treated well. — Andrew W.K.

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. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect. — Andrew W.K.

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

Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them. — Andrew W.K.

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. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds. — Andrew W.K.

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

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge. — Andrew W.K.

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast. — Andrew W.K.

We do what we like, and we like what we do. — Andrew W.K.