BRENDON URIE

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

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

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

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.

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

Change is always a little bit strange.

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

I really miss wearing costumes and makeup.

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

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

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

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

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

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

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!'

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'm still a very big fan of Fiona Apple.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.