Jack Antonoff Quotes
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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'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 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 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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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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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'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 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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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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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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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.