Quotes from Patrick Stump

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

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.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or 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)

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

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

I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.