He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.