Jack Antonoff

You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.