Zitat des Tages von Brendon Urie:
You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.
You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.
I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.
It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.
My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.
Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.
When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.
I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.
I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
Panic! for me has been an outlet for nonchalant chaos. It gives me full ride to fulfill this dream that anything is possible because of this band.
I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.
I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.
I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'
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!'
I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.
'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.
Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.
There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.
I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!
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.
When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.
I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.
I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.
The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.
The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.
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.
I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.
Our fans are definitely dedicated. We see them at all the shows, just faces that we've recognized for years. They keep coming back, and it's awesome.
I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.
I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.