Fun. Quotes
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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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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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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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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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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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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
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I kind of like being depressed.
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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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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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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 think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
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A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.
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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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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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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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I love connected culture.