The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know.… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
It probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen... Fleetwood Mac... I mean, that's all so… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better."… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share
