Mike Skinner > Quotes

“People don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.”
― Mike Skinner

“A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone.”
― Mike Skinner

“You’d worry less about what they thought if you knew how little they did.”
― Mike Skinner

“In one single moment your whole life can turn around.”
― Mike Skinner

“I know in the past I’ve found it hard to say-
Telling you things but not telling straight-
But the more I pull on your hand and say-
The more you pull alway.”
― Mike Skinner

“I think everyone who does something creative has got some kind of flaw or insecurity that helps drive them to do what they do. As a general rule, artists value themselves quite low, that's why they want to add value by doing things. Weaknesses often become your biggest strengths. People with no insecurities don't tend to make very good art.”
― Mike Skinner, The Story of The Streets

“It’s the end of something I did not want to end-
Beginning of hard times to come-
But something that was not meant to be is done-
And this is the start of what was-”
― Mike Skinner

“Saying “I love you forever” won’t hold us together.”
― Mike Skinner

“I smoked one too many cigarettes-
I heard one too many lies-
Gambled on too many bets-
And lost it all to this life.”
― Mike Skinner

“Just when I’m loving life it seems to start raining.”
― Mike Skinner

“Stop dreaming
People who say that are blaspheming
They're doing nine to five and moaning
And they don't want you succeeding when they've blown it.”
― Mike Skinner

“I’m here and I’m there, couldn’t see past the end of my beer, at what was getting near or the silence after the cheers.”
― Mike Skinner

“Then the girl in the cafe taps me on the shoulder, I realise five years went by and I’m older, memories smoulder, winters colder, but that same piano loops over and over.”
― Mike Skinner

“Sat down, got a fat frown
Weeping and drowning my senses
For this love game's expensive”
― Mike Skinner

“Never trust a man with two phones.”
― Mike Skinner

“Dry your eyes mate, I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts, but you’ve got to walk away now, it’s over.”
― Mike Skinner

“My time on this earth is my only penny, wise is the gent counting every moment spent.”
― Mike Skinner

“Life lies in the blink of an eye.”
― Mike Skinner

“An addiction to a fix of praise-
Rely on me to say it’s okay-
There’s only room for one in the sun-
There was only one of me and you once.”
― Mike Skinner

“I never cared about God when life was sailin' in the calm, So I said I'd get my head down and I'd deal with the ache in my heart.”
― Mike Skinner

“I smoked one too many cigarettes-
I heard one too many lies-
Gambler on too many bets-
And lost it all to this life.”
― Mike Skinner

“I saw this thing on ITV the other week
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin' with her hair, well regularly
So I reckon I could well be in.”
― Mike Skinner

“See i reckon your about an 8 or a 9, maybe even 9 1/2 in four beers time.”
― Mike Skinner

“As London Bridge burns down, Brixton’s burning up, turns out you’re in luck cos’ I know this dodgy fuck in the duck.”
― Mike Skinner

“When the shadows in the sun roll on, we listen to a slow, slow song.”
― Mike Skinner

“No one's really there fighting for you in the last garrison
No one except yourself that is
No one except you
You are the one who's got your back 'til the last deeds done”
― Mike Skinner, The Story of The Streets

“Two great European narcotics, Alcohol and Christianity, I know which one I prefer.”
― Mike Skinner

“We first met through a shared view, she loved me and I did too.”
― Mike Skinner

“Memories are times we borrow, for spending tomorrow.”
― Mike Skinner

“What are we waiting for mate
Let's wake the place
Cause it's all a bit late
And were all in a bit of a state”
― Mike Skinner