Brendon Urie Quotes
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I guess a lot of people don't like talking.
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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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It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
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If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.
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To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.
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I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.
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I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.
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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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I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!
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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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Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.
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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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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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The first show we ever played was at my church.
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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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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 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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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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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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I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.
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My family is very religious.
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I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
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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.