Tyler Joseph Quotes

In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I have great memories.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.