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I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'

When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.

It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

I love Frank Sinatra. He is one of my biggest all-time idols.

I always miss New York when I leave it.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

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 didn't even go to graduation.

I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.

I want to inflict some change on people.

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.

It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.

Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.

If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.