Jesse Rutherford

“You have creative vulnerability when you're at home, you could look in the mirror and say, 'This was pretty cool.'”

“I'll still write about my own experiences, however I've been trying to listen more to what other people are saying, and pay more attention to what type of people are listening to my music.”

“I change my mind so much, you know? It's hard to be just one character.”

“Everybody should put out free music, sell yourself, not music. The music is the vessel, the music is your truth, the music gives you a reason to be something.”

“Taking someone on tour is great because you get to know them enough, but yet you get your own space also and you get to be doing what you want. You get to be peacocking the whole time and going up on stage and performing and getting that out of you with each other, and you get to win individually but with each other.”

“I feel like I turned into a 'thing' on the Internet. When you work on a piece of music for a long time, you post it, and it gets X amount of likes, then you post a picture with your girlfriend and it gets X amount It's just a weird, challenging, confusing feeling.”

“Ever since I was young I was dressing myself; trying everything from FUBU jerseys in fourth grade to dresses. I even wore a girl's skirt from Target that looks like a kilt.”

“I was in bands growing up around town as a kid, like bands in the local kind of hardcore scene that we had because that's just kind of what the kids in my area were doing. And I liked music and I picked up drums.”

“I've always moved fast and rushed to the next thing.”

“I've done things along the way, just to do them first. I'm not afraid to do that. That's a lie. I am afraid - but not enough for it to stop me.”

“I mean, I love and I hold dear all my relationships, and I feel like I have a lot of strong ones.”

“Coachella was kind of the reason we came about.”

“It's cool that people are latching on and becoming part of The Neighbourhood with us, with the whole black and white movement.”

“We made an accidental seasonal hit, that's always a silly thought to me.”

“The outer version of me had been worn down enough and given away to people. People had their interpretations of me - even myself, I had this interpretation of what I wanted to be, thus the tattoos and all that.”

“I've always been an in-between kind of fella. I'm not quite this, I'm not quite that. I'm not super masc, I'm not super feminine I'm kind of a confused person, to be honest with you.”

“Anything you put your name or your face on you should probably mean or if you don't, you're gonna get found out. Or you'll figure yourself out and move on to what you really are.”

“We can't control the world; we can't. But as far as the media we put out, we try to control it as much as we can, make it our themes, brand it as ourselves.”

“Try therapy. There's nothing wrong with a scheduled hour-long conversation once a week.”

“I find the things that I like and then try to do my own version of them. I think that's what my whole life has been.”