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As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.
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As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.
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I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're comfortable with that, sometimes it's like an old high school year book picture - it makes you blush a little bit, but you gotta learn to really appreciate each stage of your life and where you're at.
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Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.
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I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.
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When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.
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Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.
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When you have a relationship with a label, it can really affect the work you're doing and if you feel like they don't believe in you sometimes you go: "maybe I'm not any good at this". Then you get on a label that is excited to have you and you go: "oh, maybe we are ok at this". It gives you a little more confidence and you work a little better.
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Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.
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Things have changed. I almost feel like it's more adaptable, and you can decide your own career now. I feel artists have so much more of a voice and so much more power now. It's really inspiring to see how a lot of the young artists use their platforms.
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Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.
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I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.
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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
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There are so many bands I am starting to see: Waterparks, Potty Mouth - they're all garage bands that started in the garage. Kids are loving them.
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There's this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that's bigger than ever. I'm really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn't have had it any other way.
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Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.
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We don't take ourselves seriously; we make the records for fun.
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The youth is always going to decide the future.
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You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.
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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
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I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.
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There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.
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I think about people whose lives maybe hadn't turned out as well as me and Joel's lives, and I just think it's just pure luck and the grace of God. I also think we were lucky to have each other as brothers.
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You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.