Jamie > Jamie's Quotes

“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”
― Hayley Williams (lead sing of Paramore)

“I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.”
― Hayley Williams

“What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.”
― Hayley Williams

“To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.”
― Hayley Williams

“It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.”
― Hayley Williams

“now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?”
― Hayley Williams

“sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.”
― Hayley Williams

“Support music every day because there isn’t a day music won’t be there for you!”
― Hayley Williams

“I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.”
― Hayley Williams

“I do respect you, even though you’re yelling ‘fuck you’ at me..”
― Hayley Williams

“Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost”
― Hayley Williams

“i feel really lucky to come home to a place that is so beautiful. sometimes it's sad to leave and go out on the road, missing everything that happens here - but honestly, it's nice to miss the things that you love once in a while. so you never forget to appreciate it. hopefully, i can say this without sounding like a preacher but... remember to enjoy EVERYTHING. the things that feel good, the things that hurt, rejection, acceptance.. it's all going to make you better. stronger. and more like yourself. every once in a while i get a reminder of how much i'm okay with just being me. i know that sounds ridiculous. cause i'm in this band. we're lucky. we got successful. but who i am is still this nerdy, silly, flamethrower of a person. and it took me 20 years to see that and get it and love it.”
― Hayley Williams

“Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.”
― Hayley Williams

“Never change for anybody. Do not apologize, either. Be yourself.”
― Hayley Williams

“This is the key to the entire universe. You know what this is? It's not a microphone, this right here is your voice. This physical thing just amplifies it. Don't be afraid of your voice. You have a voice without a microphone. Use it and don't let anybody snuff you out and tell you don't have one.”
― Hayley Williams

“It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I've been in. There is no old or new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better.”
― Hayley Williams

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”
― Kurt Cobain

“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Friends are nothing but a known enemy.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.”
― Kurt Cobain

“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Oh well, whatever, nevermind.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I won't eat anything green.”
― Kurt Cobain