There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

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.

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

I war not with the dead.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.