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" Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us. "
Tyler Joseph
Forget
Us
Horrible
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" 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. "
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Questions
Believe
I Believe
" 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. "
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" Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity. "
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Character
" Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me. "
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Live
Family
People
" When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters. "
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Story
New
Live
" We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere. "
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Just
Back
Want
" 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. "
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Believe
Think
Power
" You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters. "
Tyler Joseph
Love
Song
Celebrate
" 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
Say
Radio
Honest
" I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing. "
Tyler Joseph
Started
Music
Rules
" When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback. "
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Negative
Feedback
You
" Our moms accuse us of selling out all the time, so we're still trying to cope with that. They claim to be true fans, like they've been there from the beginning, and they think that we've kind of, like, changed as humans. "
Tyler Joseph
Trying
Think
Beginning
" Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before? "
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Long
Live
Done
" It's hard not to be affected by the live audience. "
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Hard
Audience
Live
" 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
Attention
Advice
Band
" We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do what we don't feel like doing. It takes hard work, and the band name is a constant reminder of that. "
Tyler Joseph
Doing
Feel
Hard Work
" Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't really change our minds. "
Tyler Joseph
Band
You
Two
" One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage. "
Tyler Joseph
Go
You
Want
" From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone. "
Tyler Joseph
People
Writing
Alone
" 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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Live
People
Us
" I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?' "
Tyler Joseph
Friend
Myself
Writing
" When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud. "
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Say
Doubt
Music
" I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates. "
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Four
Candles
Fact
" You have to give them something where they walk away and say, 'I want more of that.' To create something like that, you have to take them on a journey. So the live show is very important to us; we've been working on that a lot. "
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Live
You
Walk
" 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. "
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Friends
Go
Just
" I had to make 500 shots every day, and when my mom wasn't looking, I'd get up closer to the basket and do lay-ups and count them, and she'd be at the back window at the kitchen and knock. Then I'd have to go back and shoot from longer. "
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Day
Mom
Window
" Radio is a hungry monster that eats very fast. "
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Eats
Radio
Monster
" If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary. "
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Going
Things
Start
" I've forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day... But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring. "
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Dream
Play
Place
" It doesn't matter what we post about ourselves on social networks or how many times we play live TV, even. It's all about those people, those fans who are telling other people about us. "
Tyler Joseph
Fans
Us
Play