Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

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.

It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit.

Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.

People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?

You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.