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

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.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see “Why are you not leading”?

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.