In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

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.

If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.

It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

As an American citizen, one has to vote.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

I think I’ve got something else to help center my life.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.