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I love ABC Family!
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'
For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.
It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.
You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.
The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."