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.
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
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.
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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.'
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.
I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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.
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.'