Jack Terricloth Quotes

Interviewer says "Yeah, and I watched that but I actually was kind of like, terrified by the intensity of your fans and I was wondering if the intensity of your fans ever kind of scares you? I hear that they have a bunch of rules for what dances to do during certain songs…I was like ‘Oh God’."

What better place than this? What better choice than us?

Interviewer says "How do you become a member of the World/Inferno Friendship Society?"

What do you think makes a good rock front man? Shamelessness, I’d imagine.

Where do you hear the songs? In the space between wake and passing out, the hiss down the left of the dial, the faces of the kids when we pull up to the show, in answering machine hang up messages, in glasses colliding, transmissions whining, where the music doesn't belong—where it lives. Everywhere, it's all I hear.

Interviewer says "Maybe you can give us some chores that have to be done like Hercules had to do ten of them so maybe we could do ten of them"

Trouble is a great deal of fun, and crimes committed without malice are usually forgiven among peers.

You should live your life with an emphasis on accruing experiences and becoming cooler.

What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.

People often ask me, "Jack, you're old. How do you manage to get out of the house and be so outraged and hop up and down so very often?" And of course, I respond, "Could you lend me ten bucks so I can buy some drugs?"

There's a shop on the next corner, North Six, between Wythe and Berry? I'd like you all to go smash it up. Now, if anyone asks you who told you to do this, I want you to keep mum. It was Franz.

My favorite wine is usually whatever is right in front of me.

It is every singer's ambition, whether they acknowledge it or not, to croon.

All you have to do is put all other concerns aside and your fondest desire will come true. Unfortunately, 'all other concerns' includes your health, financial well-being, interpersonal relationships, and often any inkling of why you had this desire in the first place. Good luck!

Everything's going to be okay, even though it's all terribly wrong.