133 Quotes by Jack Antonoff

When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

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.

I love to stay at home and write.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.

I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.