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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" It's hard not to be affected by the live audience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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