A biography for Brendon Uriehasn’t been written yet.
“I'm so excited for 30. I hear it's OK. I'll probably do the same stuff, but I'll be more comfortable being who I am.”
“It's just really cool to go to countries and play festivals for people who don't really know your band or don't ever get to see it. It's really nice.”
“It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.”
“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 was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.”
“I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.”
“I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.”
“I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!”
“The first show we ever played was at my church.”
“From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.”
“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 know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I'm pretty sure he's still Mormon. I left the church long ago.”
“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 like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.”
“It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.”
“I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.”
“I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing.”
“I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'”
“It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.”
“I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.”