In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

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.

Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born!-RVM

Perhaps God is not calling you to live for peace, but rather to fight for it.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I never confused what I had with what I was.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.