Urie Quotes & Sayings

I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far. — Brendon Urie

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. — Brendon Urie

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff. — Brendon Urie

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. — Brendon Urie

I'm too precious to spend time on something that I'm not enjoying. — Brendon Urie

I really miss wearing costumes and makeup. — Brendon Urie

I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy. — Brendon Urie

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money. — Brendon Urie

We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should. — Brendon Urie

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine. — Brendon Urie

There's a little tagline in there that I throw out to our fans, I like to call them my sinners, and I'm a fellow sinner, and so I think that's a special little throw-out to them. — Brendon Urie

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys. — Brendon Urie

My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought. — Brendon Urie

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun. — Brendon Urie

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

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy. — Brendon Urie

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations. — Brendon Urie

I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day. — Brendon Urie

It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype. — Brendon Urie

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop. — Brendon Urie

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Change is always a little bit strange. — Brendon Urie

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life. — Brendon Urie

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known. — Brendon Urie

I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to. — Brendon Urie

In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

I'm still a very big fan of Fiona Apple. — Brendon Urie

I think a lot of women would like to eat like a man, especially on a date. But they're probably afraid to. But a guy would love to see a woman with a healthy appetite. They love seeing women with a healthy appetite. — Michael Urie

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out. — Brendon Urie

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing. — Brendon Urie

There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing. — Brendon Urie

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role. — Michael Urie

Love Is Not A choice — Brendon Urie

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff. — Brendon Urie

I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city. — Brendon Urie

I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them. — Michael Urie

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know? — Brendon Urie

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

I didn't even go to graduation. — Brendon Urie

What I love is getting polarized opinions. — Brendon Urie

I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience. — Brendon Urie

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at. — Michael Urie

I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today. — Brendon Urie

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. — Brendon Urie

If you truly, truly want the rainbow, you've just gotta put up with the fucking rain. That's really it. — Brendon Urie

Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different. — Michael Urie

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing. — Brendon Urie

Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd. — Brendon Urie

I don't listen to a ton of rock music. — Brendon Urie

My family is very religious. — Brendon Urie

I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in. — Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.' — Brendon Urie

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac. — Brendon Urie

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad. — Brendon Urie

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way. — Brendon Urie

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do. — Brendon Urie

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun. — Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music. — Brendon Urie

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it. — Brendon Urie

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space. — Brendon Urie

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad. — Brendon Urie

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say. — Brendon Urie

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration. — Michael Urie

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who's crazy about that child — Urie Bronfenbrenner

One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent's job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

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. — Brendon Urie

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy! — Brendon Urie

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

I guess a lot of people don't like talking. — Brendon Urie

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and ... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship. — Michael Urie

We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents
but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards
and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful. — Brendon Urie

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician. — Brendon Urie

Heartbreak is the best motivation. — Brendon Urie

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically. — Brendon Urie

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people. — Brendon Urie

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write. — Brendon Urie

'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome. — Brendon Urie

I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song! — Brendon Urie

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

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that. — Brendon Urie

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything. — Michael Urie

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!' — Brendon Urie

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight. — Brendon Urie

Children need people in order to become human ... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become
that he develops both his ability and his identity ... Hence to relegate children to a world of their own is to deprive them of their humanity, and ourselves as well. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us
through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

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. — Brendon Urie

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all. — Brendon Urie

I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because ... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone always needs to talk to you. There are always decisions to be made and every day for as long as the movie goes on. So it's a marathon ... You don't have to look nice, but it's all day every day. — Michael Urie

I have my mother's hips ... I have an apple bottom. — Brendon Urie

You can't really take a vinyl record player on a plane so you're not going to have the same experience, but if you walk yourself away and allow yourself to experience these different moments with music, you're so much richer in experience for that. That's what I believe. — Brendon Urie

I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put it on in a club and just rage! Play it super loud! — Brendon Urie

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.' — Brendon Urie

When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about. — Brendon Urie

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour. — Brendon Urie

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right! — Brendon Urie