Brendon Urie
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.Collection: Attitude
Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.Collection: Religion
Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.Collection: Christmas
My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.Collection: Pet
It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.Collection: Cool
I didn't even go to graduation.Collection: Graduation
I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.
The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
Change is always a little bit strange.
There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.
The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
Our fans are definitely dedicated. We see them at all the shows, just faces that we've recognized for years. They keep coming back, and it's awesome.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
We're all in this together. We're all sinners.
I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.
My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.
I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.
I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.
There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful.
When I got the 'Blue Album,' I was 11 years old, 10 years old, and then I convinced my parents to go and get my first drum kit, which was, like, 600 bucks.
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.
I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.
Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.
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 think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.
What I love is getting polarized opinions.
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.
I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.
'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.
All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.
Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.
I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far.
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 a big fan of electronic dance music.
I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to.
I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.
To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.
I really miss wearing costumes and makeup.
I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.
My family is very religious.
I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.