Jack Antonoff Quotes
-
I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
-
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
-
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
-
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
-
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
-
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
-
I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
-
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
-
I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
-
Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
-
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
-
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
-
The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
-
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
-
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
-
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
-
You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
-
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
-
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
-
I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
-
I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
-
I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
-
For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
-
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.