Jack Antonoff

“I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.”

“Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.”

“All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.”

“I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.”

“I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.”

“Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.”

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

“So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'”

“I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.”

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

“What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.”

“The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.”

“I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.”

“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.”

“I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.”

“My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.”

“I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.”

“I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.”

“I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.”

“Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.”