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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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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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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I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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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 never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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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.
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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.