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I kinda always wanted to be an ant.
Know this: you can start over, each morning.
Radio is a hungry monster that eats very fast.
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.
It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.
Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.
We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.
You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.
I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.
It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.
By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.
I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.
Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.
A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else.
Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?
We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.
We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.
If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.
For a long time, we just played here - Columbus is a perfect place to work your way up and maybe build a fan base.
Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.
I think one of the toughest things is that balancing act of trying to maintain relationships while being on the road.
We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.
Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't really change our minds.
We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.
We're constantly faced with decisions. A lot of times, the right ones take more work; it takes longer to see benefit: they're the long route.
Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.
Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have.
It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn't make any sense.
If I were to give advice to someone that just started a band and how to get someone's attention, you've gotta have a central hub. For us, it was Columbus, Ohio.
Pretty much all the programming on our CDs is done by me personally, so I've kind of been able to have complete control of what sounds I'm looking for to complete a song.
Here in Ohio, the hardcore scene is a big thing, so some of our good friends are in hardcore bands. So we've had to figure out how the heck we get these people to respect us.
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me.
It doesn't matter what we post about ourselves on social networks or how many times we play live TV, even. It's all about those people, those fans who are telling other people about us.
Our palette is wide and eclectic. That's why we crank out a lot of different styles. To some people, it makes us seem disjointed or scattered. But when we play live, it makes sense to us.
Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.
I've forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day... But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.
I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.
Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show.
We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do what we don't feel like doing. It takes hard work, and the band name is a constant reminder of that.
You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.
There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'
When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.
We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.
Our moms accuse us of selling out all the time, so we're still trying to cope with that. They claim to be true fans, like they've been there from the beginning, and they think that we've kind of, like, changed as humans.
There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.