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" 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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" 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

Respect

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

Control

Song

" Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show. "

" 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. "

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

Tyler Joseph

Feels

Insecurity

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

You

Want

" 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

Friends

Just

" 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. "

Tyler Joseph

Live

People

" We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make. "

" There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.' "

Tyler Joseph

You

Pressure

" We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Horrible

" We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere. "

" 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

Kind

Want

" We've done that whole spectrum of different varieties of shows, and we've figured out the best way of capturing the audience and taking them to a place where they will have an experience that they will never forget, whether they don't like it, or they actually resonate with what we're trying to do. "

" We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it. "

" Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity. "

Tyler Joseph

Insecurity

Character

" You hear about our conservative background and know that we're Christian guys, but we're not timid at all. I will take anyone on when it comes to outworking them or putting on a better show or standing up for people who are being put down. "

" It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn't make any sense. "

" 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. "