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" 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. "

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" 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

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

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

" A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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?!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Tyler Joseph

Insecurity

Character

" For a long time, we just played here - Columbus is a perfect place to work your way up and maybe build a fan base. "

" 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

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

" There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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

Play

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

" Radio is a hungry monster that eats very fast. "