The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

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 teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

You’re going to be trouble, aren’t you?”“Not if you give me everything I want.”“We’ll see.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

Lucky to have been where I have been

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

The world belongs to the discontented.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.