Brendon Urie

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

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

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?

Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you can't truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you've hurt yourself? I'm still figuring out who I am, but I know that I'm not who I was.

I\'m shedding off the old me and I\'m reborn as the new me - it\'s great!

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.

It\'s fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

I grew up in a religious family and, like, that was a very big part of my life, and still, very much, is even though I don\'t affiliate with any specific religion. It\'s just, for me, you know, the spirituality of being able to own up to your sins, as they\'re called, and take responsibility for your actions really hit me this time around.

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it\'s only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.

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!

I don\'t care who gets in my way... I\'m just gonna come right though and riot.

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I\'m able to move forwards in a new light, like I\'m reborn.

I want to inflict some change on people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.

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\'m always creating. Whether I\'m writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I\'m doing something.

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.

Our fans are definitely dedicated. We see them at all the shows, just faces that we\'ve recognized for years. They keep coming back, and it\'s awesome.

Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.

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

I didn\'t even go to graduation.