If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.
— Brendon Urie
I want to inflict some change on people.
Panic! for me has been an outlet for nonchalant chaos. It gives me full ride to fulfill this dream that anything is possible because of this band.
If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.
Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.
I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.
I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.
I've always been comfortable in my own skin - sometimes a little too comfortable, which in turn makes other people uncomfortable.
Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.
I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.
It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.
I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.
I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.
I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!
I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.
When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.
If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.
B-52's are one of the most unique bands, not just sonically but aesthetically, too. When you look at them, you know it's the B-52's.
Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.
It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.
I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.
The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.
I'm so excited for 30. I hear it's OK. I'll probably do the same stuff, but I'll be more comfortable being who I am.
The first show we ever played was at my church.
The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
There's always nerves when you're releasing something.
Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.
When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.
Buffalo Wild Wings is always a good choice.
I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.
When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.
I was so enthralled watching 'Guys and Dolls' and learning about the Rat Pack.
I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.
I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.
I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.
I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.
Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.
I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.
I have a massive hat collection, which includes many, many fedoras I haven't worn because of the stigma. I buy them thinking, 'I'm going to make people accept fedoras!' But with the way I dress, if I wore a fedora, I'd be in the camp that gives them a bad name.
I would love to act. I get to do it in three and a half minutes in a video on a three-day shoot, which is fun.
I'm trying to be number one. I'm doing the best I can and working the hardest I've ever worked to ensure I've got that number one spot.
When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!
On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'
I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.
