Jack Antonoff

I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

— Jack Antonoff

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

— Jack Antonoff

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a…

— Jack Antonoff

Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

— Jack Antonoff

The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill…

— Jack Antonoff

I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away…

— Jack Antonoff

I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with…

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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

— Jack Antonoff

I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great…

— Jack Antonoff

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have…

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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me…

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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang…

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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just…

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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

— Jack Antonoff

People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view…

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There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not…

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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

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

— Jack Antonoff

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

— Jack Antonoff

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

— Jack Antonoff

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

— Jack Antonoff

I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

— Jack Antonoff

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out…

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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a…

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For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

— Jack Antonoff

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

— Jack Antonoff

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

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

— Jack Antonoff

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

— Jack Antonoff

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the…

— Jack Antonoff

I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

— Jack Antonoff

When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

— Jack Antonoff

I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in…

— Jack Antonoff

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

— Jack Antonoff

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

— Jack Antonoff

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to…

— Jack Antonoff

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

— Jack Antonoff

I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

— Jack Antonoff

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living…

— Jack Antonoff