I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of…

- Nick Valensi

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

- Nick Valensi

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

- Nick Valensi

I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

- Nick Valensi

Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.

- Nick Valensi

I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain that tries to edit or criticize. That fu…

- Nick Valensi

The other day my daughter said, ‘Daddy, guess who my favorite Stroke is?’ And I thought she was going to say me because, oh man, she loves me so much…

- Nick Valensi