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Quiet IS the new loud.
You could be your own spotlight!
I'd hate wearing suits every day.
Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
I think writing is a much more personal thing.
Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.
I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.
I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins
I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.
Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.
Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong
Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.
Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.
Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.
My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.
I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.
I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.