Jack Antonoff Quotes
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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.
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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
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People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.
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I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.