Fall Out Boy Quotes
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Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.
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In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.
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My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.
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When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
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I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.
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There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.
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Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
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Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.
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What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.
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I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.
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I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
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I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
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I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.
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I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.
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There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.
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It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
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If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.
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It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.
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Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.
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Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.
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I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
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I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit.
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When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.
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I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.