Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

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

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

You could be your own spotlight!

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

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.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Life continues to flow even if you want to stop for a moment.

...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.