You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

- Matt Berninger

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

- Matt Berninger

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

- Matt Berninger

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

- Matt Berninger

I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story. I'm not necessarily trying to describe the d…

- Matt Berninger

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after …

- Matt Berninger

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody a…

- Matt Berninger

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

- Matt Berninger

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

- Matt Berninger