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.
BRENDON URIEFrank 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.
BRENDON URIEI’m not starting my own religion, I’m not preaching, and I’m not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.
BRENDON URIEEmo 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.
BRENDON URIEI like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I’ve always wanted to be able to fly! That’s a dream of mine.
BRENDON URIEI wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I’ve been through. Party-wise, it’s taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song!
BRENDON URIEWe’re weird guys. I don’t know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we’re jerks. We’re real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.
BRENDON URIEIt’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.
BRENDON URIEWhen I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that’s been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.
BRENDON URIEI think some songs are better on vinyl.
BRENDON URIEI look back at the past as fond memories but I’m able to move forwards in a new light, like I’m reborn.
BRENDON URIEPeople always try to stereotype us, but we don’t fit the emo stereotype.
BRENDON URIEI have my mother’s hips…I have an apple bottom.
BRENDON URIEThere’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.
BRENDON URIEI grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I’m not religious myself, it is so much a part of me.
BRENDON URIEI think anything you listen to is going to be different.
BRENDON URIEI love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl – if it’s right!
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