I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?'

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Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

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chaotic together sometimes

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

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thinking

Know this: you can start over, each morning.

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starting-over knows morning

You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.

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scary eye want

I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

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ants wanted

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

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dog rabbits inspire

It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'

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cool you home funny

Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have.

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questions music trying people

From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone.

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alone beginning me people

A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else.

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anything just things you

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

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right just try you

Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.

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sensation like me insecurity

By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.

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something doing you time

Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.

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level up insecurity character

We're constantly faced with decisions. A lot of times, the right ones take more work; it takes longer to see benefit: they're the long route.

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decisions see work long

You hear about our conservative background and know that we're Christian guys, but we're not timid at all. I will take anyone on when it comes to outworking them or putting on a better show or standing up for people who are being put down.

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down better you people

Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.

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you music character people

Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.

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us lighting forget trying

There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'

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The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

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