Quotes from Jack Antonoff

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.

People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.

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 grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.

I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

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.

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."

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

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.

You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

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.