Quotes from Brendon Urie

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.

I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.

The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.

I've always been comfortable in my own skin - sometimes a little too comfortable, which in turn makes other people uncomfortable.

I'm trying to be number one. I'm doing the best I can and working the hardest I've ever worked to ensure I've got that number one spot.

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'