With the Farro brothers leaving the band in such a public way, and also situations with you guesting on tracks by B.o.B and Zedd, there’s this sort of constant question that people are asking you, if you’re going to go solo. Does that constant speculation bother you?
I mean, yeah. People speculate all sorts of things about me, and about the band, that aren’t real life. Real life for me is waking up every day on a tour bus with my friends and playing a show that night. That’s what it is. There’s not some scheme that I have in the back of my head, like, "When am I going to break out of here and be a solo artist!?" [Laughs] I don’t want to be lonely. That’s what that sounds like to me — being a solo artist, traveling the way that we do as a band, by myself? That sounds miserable. So let them speculate. You can’t prove to anybody what you are, you just have to be it and keep being it because that’s the only way that anyone’s going to see you.
Does it feel like the perception of Paramore as a band is something that you have to protect?
Yeah, what I feel like, and especially since this record came out — I mean, yeah, you’ve got the people that say things about me, like what we were just talking about, or whatever. But I feel like our fans, more than ever, realize that this has always been what it is today. Even if looks different, even if the songs sound different, it’s always been the same heart beating behind all of it and we have a passion that we share that makes it what it is and that’s Paramore. So to me, the perception — I don’t know, like, whatever the perception is, I know that when people come to our shows and the fans are there, they’re seeing us do what we love to do, it’s Paramore. It’s not even just a band — this is our life. This is our passion and our past, present and future. It is us.
The Cream Interview.
I love how they care about their fellow bandmates and fans so much. That quote. 
