A biography for Jesse Rutherfordhasn’t been written yet.
“We didn't get into this to be a cool indie band. When radio caught on, that made a little more sense. We write catchy pop songs. There's no getting around it.”
“We wrote some songs. We had a band name. We asked ourselves, 'What else do cool bands have? A theme.'”
“It's like wine - the older I get, the more my style matures.”
“I shopped at Hot Topic when I was really, really young. Like, inappropriately young.”
“I'm more worried about being relevant on the Internet than being relevant on alternative radio.”
“My sister's about 10 years older than me and she is my barometer for truth. She's led a different life than me. We've had very different paths, and I've questioned that all the time, why she had to go through the things she had to go through and yet, I get to do the things that I get to do.”
“Maybe that is something the people need to start discussing again, the image of a band.”
“God forbid a band has an image and doesn't look like they just got out of college and formed a band with each other to try to make some money.”
“Identity's a tricky thing, and I feel like when you're in front of people and you're lucky enough to have an audience like I do, people could kind of tell you who you are. Even if you've already told them, 'This is who I am,' but then you're like, 'Wait, but I want to grow.'”
“I just do whatever I want to do and if it inspires anybody to be who they want, hopefully positive things, then that is the highest paying compliment ever.”
“I've always liked 'We All Try,' by Frank Ocean, I think that song is perfect. I just love it. He put me in his world, straight up, he talks about things and I see it.”
“I see a lot of those artists that we've taken on tour that I've asked to open for us on tour take flight success-wise much higher than us in certain ways.”
“The thing about singing for the Neighbourhood is I have to have a voice for five people and not just for myself.”
“When you're on the Internet at all and you're part of that flow and you're actively participating, it's hard to not think about it in the back of your head. I think I got to a point when I was off of it for so long that it wasn't even in the back of my head, which was really nice.”
“I don't drink at all.”
“My mom listened to classic rock radio a lot so I heard the Eagles and I just confirmed that I hated them early on.”
“Being early doesn't matter - no one cares if you're before a trend. You have to be on time.”
“Blink was pretty good, but they only had three members and Travis is arguably the most recognizable one now. And I wonder if my kids, when I have kids, will know him from being the drummer of Blink-182 or being Travis Barker.”
“Hip-hop music has been my programming. It's been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time, I was like Bro, that is it.”
“I grew up with two women only, so it's really special to me that women are excited about our music.”