Matt Skiba Quotes

I'm pagan.

I used to practice Wicca.

I dabbled in witchcraft but I never joined a coven… I had a date at an alter once.

In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

The difference between white witches and dark witches is that a white witch is very spiritual, into nature and can make magic happen. That is me.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

When I was young, I was religious.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.