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.

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.

Patience is not a virtue!

The devil is more interesting than God.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.