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" 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. "

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" 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?' "

Tyler Joseph

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Myself

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?!' "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tyler Joseph

Forget

Horrible

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Tyler Joseph

Feels

Insecurity

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "