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I love to stay at home and write.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.

The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

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.

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.

What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

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.

I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

I'm not super into sports.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

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.

I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

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.

I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking inside the window, wanting to be in the party. I think it breeds good feelings.

The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

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.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.

In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

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.

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.

I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

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.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

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.

I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

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.

I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.

When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.

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