Tyler Joseph
One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.
Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.
For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.
We've done that whole spectrum of different varieties of shows, and we've figured out the best way of capturing the audience and taking them to a place where they will have an experience that they will never forget, whether they don't like it, or they actually resonate with what we're trying to do.
If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.
We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.
You have to give them something where they walk away and say, 'I want more of that.' To create something like that, you have to take them on a journey. So the live show is very important to us; we've been working on that a lot.
I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
We're constantly faced with decisions. A lot of times, the right ones take more work; it takes longer to see benefit: they're the long route.
Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.Collection: Together
There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.Collection: Thinking
Know this: you can start over, each morning.Collection: Morning
You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.Collection: Eye
I kinda always wanted to be an ant.Collection: Ants
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.Collection: Dog