Brendon Urie Quotes
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There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'
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I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far.
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I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.
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One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.
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I want to inflict some change on people.
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I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
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I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.
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The first show we ever played was at my church.
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To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.
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I have a massive hat collection, which includes many, many fedoras I haven't worn because of the stigma. I buy them thinking, 'I'm going to make people accept fedoras!' But with the way I dress, if I wore a fedora, I'd be in the camp that gives them a bad name.
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I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.
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It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
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Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.
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I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.
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I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!
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The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.
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When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
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Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
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I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.
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It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.
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I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
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My family is very religious.
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Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.