Brendon Urie Quotes

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

If you truly, truly want the rainbow, you've just gotta put up with the fucking rain. That's really it.

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.

There's a little tagline in there that I throw out to our fans, I like to call them my sinners, and I'm a fellow sinner, and so I think that's a special little throw-out to them.

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I really miss wearing costumes and makeup.

I have my mother's hips ... I have an apple bottom.

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.

When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.

I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.

I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life.

We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful.

I don't listen to a ton of rock music.

I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.

I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.

My family is very religious.

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.

I didn't even go to graduation.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing.

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

Heartbreak is the best motivation.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

I'm too precious to spend time on something that I'm not enjoying.

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

Love Is Not A choice

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.

Change is always a little bit strange.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.

I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.