Top 44 Andrew W.K. Quotes

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

Life changes, and thus, partying changes, and what it means to party evolves as well.

A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.

I’ve always been into 1939 and the New York World’s Fair. And I lived on 39th Street and on the 39th floor. Once you pick a number that means something to you, then you notice it everywhere.

Meeting someone who likes what I’ve made is like discovering a brother or sister.

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

Try to imagine that you’re the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It’s more than self-awareness; it’s the ability to access this super-intelligence.

I was born in California, and I lived on the outskirts of Los Angeles until I was 4. At that point, my family moved to Michigan. Between 4 and 18, I lived in Michigan, and at 18, I moved to New York.

Music is a mysterious phenomenon – it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.

It’s my responsibility to show people that this music is something they can trust in and believe in, and it’s not a joke. It’s not anything but 100 percent from my heart.

Usually, two or three hours after getting offstage, I’ll begin the eating process: usually carbohydrates, protein, and fat.

That’s what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I’m not here to tell anyone how to party. I’m just here to say, ‘Please, party as hard as you can.’

Greenpoint was where I had my first apartment on my own without roommates or sleeping on someone’s couch. It was a really important time for me.

To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and reflects that, then that’s an achievement.

Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that’s shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there’s power there, people reaching toward each other and toward truth. Any mechanism, any resource that we can use to further that reach, is part of the human destiny.

Andrew W.K. is about partying and doing what you want!

I think it’s so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what’s going on, and no one has any idea what’s going on.

I always wanted to be cheered up. I felt like that feeling of the first day of summer or when a girl would agree to go on a date or you found a $20 bill – that undeniable rush of excitement – I wanted to make a soundtrack of music for that kind of moment.

As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style and clothes, it was hard to pick what to do with my life.

I like big, flashy production and videos.

It seems like your dreams are your own spirit, your own soul, telling you what you’re meant to do and getting you psyched up with the idea of thinking that it was your idea all along.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that’s why I got into it the first place.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

I don’t use Twitter to share my thoughts – I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.

I usually don’t try to meet people at all, especially if I really like them, for all kinds of reasons.

‘You’re not alone’ can be a great thing to hear when you’re feeling quite despondent and alienated from the world and yourself. But if you’re someone who’s been completely overwrought with the intensity of life and the world, getting some space to be alone can be one of the things you crave most.

Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year’s Eve. But what if you’re excited about being alive every day? Can’t you be in that celebratory state every moment you’re not dead?

Nobody can stop you more than you can stop yourself.

You just have to set a goal and go for it.

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously, like organizing little pieces of paper, cutting out things from magazines, and filing them away.

A high five is a very open kind of hand, but it can still smack you.

I’m still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

How could you not let your life affect your work? That’s all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you’re doing.

When you do something that maybe wasn’t the best thing to do at the time, you don’t want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you’d like to learn from them.

I love Turner Network television; I love Adult Swim. That’s actually how I got my start on Cartoon Network was through Adult Swim, originally. I had a special appearance on ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force!’

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

Reading counts as partying, even if you’re not enjoying it! Even if someone’s forcing you to read, you can find a way to make it into a party if you party hard enough. It just takes more effort and a more advanced approach.

I’ve always had something about parking lots at night. They have a special appeal I think many people can relate to.

I’m not the same guy that you may have seen from the ‘I Get Wet’ album. I’m not that same person, and I don’t just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It’s not the same person at all.

For me, music, in the truest sense of the word, is about making people happy.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

I’m happy to be thought of as cool, but I never was cool. Everyone thought I was this complete moron and complete dork for the majority of my school years.

I think all of our concerts, really, as parties. It’s a performance for sure. It’s not a recital. It’s a celebration of that music.