Fun. Quotes
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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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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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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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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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I'm not super into sports.
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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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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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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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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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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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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 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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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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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 feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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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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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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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.