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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?!' "

" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" 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. "

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

" 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

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" 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. "

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

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

Tyler Joseph

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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