“I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to ma...” — Matt Skiba Quote

“I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet before the band became a career, and I've just always been a cyclist - I BMX'd, and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears, which I still have.”

“Rock n' roll is the Devil's music.”

“My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.”

“Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.”

“Well, the band name is just a stupid thing. We used to live in Russia and our friend there, a Russian lady just kind of described my sister as a clean bandit.”

“I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'”