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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

I think one of the toughest things is that balancing act of trying to maintain relationships while being on the road.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'

Tyler Joseph

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.

Tyler Joseph

There's so many people who have never heard of us, but I think what we've learned is you can't underestimate the power of a core fan base and people who believe what you're doing. I think they're the ultimate marketers. They're the ones promoting us.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a little darker than they were used to, or really introspective in a way that may have been uncomfortable. I thought they'd retaliate with some kind of judgment or concern about whether I was feeling all right, but they were proud of it.

Tyler Joseph

I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.

Tyler Joseph

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

Tyler Joseph

Radio is a hungry monster that eats very fast.

Tyler Joseph

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

Tyler Joseph

Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.

Tyler Joseph

There's variables at every single gig. I look forward to those every night. We have a lot of things that happen in our show, a lot of people from the outside watching the show might think it's one schtick after the next. We promised ourselves we have to be there mentally. We have to be aware. We are forced to be aware.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

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.

Tyler Joseph

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

Tyler Joseph

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.

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For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

Tyler Joseph

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.

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