Jack Antonoff Quotes
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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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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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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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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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Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
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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'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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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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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 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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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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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.