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" 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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" 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

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Two

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

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

Tyler Joseph

Insecurity

Character

" 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?!' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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Just

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Tyler Joseph

Feels

Insecurity

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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