A biography for Jack Antonoffhasn’t been written yet.
“Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.”
“All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'”
“I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.”
“I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.”
“You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'”
“I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.”
“That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.”
“The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.”
“Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.”
“As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.”
“When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.”
“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.”
“It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.”
“I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.”
“I love ABC Family!”
“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.”
“I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking inside the window, wanting to be in the party. I think it breeds good feelings.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.”