Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

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.

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.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.