Quotes About Creativity

It just seems like Baltimore, talent-wise, nothing can touch it.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each other - and then I'll bring the song to the band.

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music.

I loved being in a band.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

It's really hard to name a band.

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.

Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

I really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

I played in ska bands and like all kinds of music.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.