Quotes from Brendon Urie

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.

I have my mother's hips...I have an apple bottom.

I was so enthralled watching 'Guys and Dolls' and learning about the Rat Pack.

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'

I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far.

I really miss wearing costumes and makeup.

Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

'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.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.