Brendon Urie Quotes

My first concert was 'Nsync.

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded.

I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.

Fall Out Boy used to be my favorite rock band.

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.

When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

Seeing Rush the first time was huge for me. That was my favorite band and I couldn't believe they were actually in the same building as me. I was totally freaking out when the show started and when they started to play it was almost like cartoon characters coming to life. I couldn't get my head around the fact that it was really them.

My first concert was Third Eye Blind.

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends!

You can't listen to 'Frampton Comes Alive!' without smiling.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

Twenty years ago I went to see this show The Best Disco in Town Live, it was all these disco acts like Gloria Gaynor and Tavares and I had the best night of my life. There was no new music, it was just hits you loved growing up.

I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.

I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.

I actually did my first tour at the age of 10 with my dad, and it was as a country singer. We toured through Alaska, and he took me to sing at places like county fairs, hoedowns, backyard barbecues, you name it. We were usually passing around the hat for gas money to get to the next gig.

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.