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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.

If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

I love working with women.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.'

Jack Antonoff

I love connected culture.

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff

The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.'

Jack Antonoff

There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.

Jack Antonoff

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

Jack Antonoff

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.

Jack Antonoff