Brendon Urie

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!'

I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.

My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.

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've always been comfortable in my own skin - sometimes a little too comfortable, which in turn makes other people uncomfortable.

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.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

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.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!