Fun. Quotes
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
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My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'