With an older generation, there’s some weight carried with the Beatles. There’s almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them. – Brendon Urie
Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that’s inspiring. – Brendon Urie
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn’t have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff. – Brendon Urie
‘Miss Jackson’ is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn’t really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn’t, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy. – Brendon Urie
I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by. – Brendon Urie
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don’t like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you’re focused on making it a single. It’s more fun when you focus on what excites you musically. – Brendon Urie
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea. – Brendon Urie
When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad. – Brendon Urie
You can’t just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar. – Brendon Urie
I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn’t really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out. – Brendon Urie
