Fun. Quotes
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from 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 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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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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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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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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I'm not super into sports.
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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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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
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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.'
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I kind of like being depressed.
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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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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.