I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

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.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others each batch has its own characteristics and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.