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Success has many fathers, failure many sons.
I forgot that being in a band was this much fun.
Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream
I'm usually the bad guy. That's how it always seems to be.
I've gotten to see the world and play music with my friends.
I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.
I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.
Brendon's more of a Peter Gabriel fan, and I'm more of a Ray Davies fan.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
You don't realise how long three years is until you go away and write an album.
We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.
We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.
I don't think I listen to anything that I did when I was 17. I've changed a great deal.
Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.
People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.
Even when we were stuck touring, earning $100 a day, I never thought I'd even make it that far.
It's kind of disappointing and disgusting in a way, how some people are focusing on how we look.
I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.
I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.
Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.
It's nice to be home - I go to the same old sandwich shop around the corner, I go to the movies, I do what I like to do.
I just couldn't keep on trying to please people. It was hindering my creative output, and I had to be honest with myself.
I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.
It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.
Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.
It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.
Some of our favorite bands are, like, Third Eye Blind and Counting Crows, and stuff like Danny Elfman and Jon Brion movie scores.
When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I'd dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo.
We wanted to grow, and we were really over the circus theme at that point. We went out in the woods and got new clothes and all grew beards.
Brendon has always been a fan of pop music, but that's such a broad term, because I guess I would say I would be too, but in a different way.
I've been studying people - a homeless guy in Scotland, a blind accordion player in London - and they've inspired the lyrics I've been writing.
Some people would say Counting Crows or Third Eye Blind would be a guilty pleasure, but they're two of my favorite bands - I'm not ashamed of it.
And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without knowing all those songs.
Fever' was good for how young we were, but for me it's kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, 'Oh, man, that's the suit I was wearing?'
A lot of people talk to me about writing lyrics and it is obvious they are really paying attention to the fact that ours are different from a lot of other bands.
Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.
What we've realized is, for us to be happy for the long haul, we have to keep doing what we want to do, or else we won't want to play music with each other anymore.
In Japan, the way they act at shows is very different from home because they don't yell, they clap for about 10 seconds after the song and then it's completely silent.
Some aspects of the fame are annoying, but at the end of the day it's something we're most grateful for. It's certainly opened the door to a whole new batch of opportunities.
It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop does not count as an artist.
We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We wanted to take our band to a level where we could do everything we want to do.
Dropping the exclamation point was our way of drawing a line in the sand. We have a new record and we feel like a new band. We were all tired of it, and we went ahead and got rid of it.
We all like all of that, from 'Rubber Soul' to 'The White Album' and all of that, but even before, we were into that theatrical element of things. We didn't want to do a 'Sgt. Pepper's' thing.
I've noticed that things aren't bad all the time. So I've tried to write songs that people will want to hear when they're getting off work rather than something that's going to bring them down.
When we were writing for Panic whether we knew it or not, having that name over the songs we were trying to do made me second guess things and change things. I started to go against my instincts.
That's the funny thing - if there was a year and half or two years of us being a band like every other band and then getting signed, we would probably have made 'Pretty. Odd.' as our first album instead.
I don't understand why Brandon Flowers keeps taking shots at us. Maybe he feels threatened, but he seems to be doing just fine on his own. It's pretty dumb. I mean, we're from the same town, and we've never met him.
I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.
Whenever I'd go anywhere with my dad - in his 1980 burgundy Dodge Ram - he'd always listen to mix tapes of country-music stars like Garth Brooks, Clint Black and Willie Nelson. Those were the first songs I ever learned the words to.
That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do cabaret? Just from hearing the Beatles, it was like, 'Well, they did it. It's okay to write something other than a standard rock song.'