Explore Quotes by Brendon Urie

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.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

I have a massive hat collection, which includes many, many fedoras I haven't worn because of the stigma. I buy them thinking, 'I'm going to make people accept fedoras!' But with the way I dress, if I wore a fedora, I'd be in the camp that gives them a bad name.

There's always nerves when you're releasing something.

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

Buffalo Wild Wings is always a good choice.

I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.

I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.

It's just really cool to go to countries and play festivals for people who don't really know your band or don't ever get to see it. It's really nice.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I know I'm not a buff dude in any sense, but I'm more than comfortable with my body.

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.