Quotes from Jack Antonoff

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.

I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

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.

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.

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 hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

I love connected culture.

You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

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.

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.