Anthony Green Quotes

I’m three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.

For a really long time, I’ve been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

As far as keeping my sanity, it’s something I’ve only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever.

I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that’s a pure, organic process of learning from someone else’s mistakes.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it’s a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.

I’m still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it’s always better to get through them, always.

I can’t imagine anybody in my life I’ve been more vulnerable with than my wife.

I deal with everything in my life in music – everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It’s like my life jacket. If I didn’t have that way of processing those feelings, I’d probably be a murderer.

For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you’re a kid just screaming your face off, you’re processing anger; you’re processing all the things that happened to you, whether it’s mistrust or confusion, whether you’ve gone through abuse.