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If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.
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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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I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.
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Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
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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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I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'
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Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
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The first show we ever played was at my church.
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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 like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.
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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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You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.
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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 find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
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Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.
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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 think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.
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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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I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.
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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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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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When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.
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The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
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I know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I'm pretty sure he's still Mormon. I left the church long ago.
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