Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Antonoff - Page 2

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

I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.

Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

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

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.

When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.

You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

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.

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.

It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.

What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

I love ABC Family!

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.

When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.

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.'

I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

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

What could be better than working with people you love?

I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

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.

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.

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.

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

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

I love connected culture.

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've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.

I love to stay at home and write.

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.

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

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.

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.

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 love working with women.

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

All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

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.

I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.

I first met Taylor Swift at an awards show, which is a pretty easy place to suss out who is cool. Right off the bat I was like, This is a person I want to know. Just because she's a very famous person doesn't mean she doesn't exist outside of that space. She's wonderful and special and treats me really nicely and we have a great, mature relationship. She's on a short list of people like that for me.

If I was a supervillain, I'd create this universal, cosmic rule where every time an old, shitty, right-wing white man says something unsavory about a young woman, he would just get the clap immediately.

It probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen... Fleetwood Mac... I mean, that's all so inherent in us that when we're making records now, we take a lot from the artists who are around us.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

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."

You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it."

I think what's cool about about going on a co-headline tour is everyone's bringing a huge show, so it's not like opening band, opening band, then here's the big show. It's like two big shows.

Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare.

I'll say about Fueled By Ramen is, I don't know what anyone else's experience has been, but we signed to them as Fun. We already had a fanbase, we already had music out there so when they signed us they were signing our vision. I always think it's so weird when people think that Fueled By Raman are trying to change us or mould us into something else, as we weren't a bunch of kids playing in a garage who joined a label and then collectively worked on a vision, like, they signed us with the intention of letting us be Fun.