I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

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

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

I still have access to enough money to live on in order to avoid bankruptcy for at least a few years as long as I stick to my budget Still, there's no amount of money in the world that makes one feel content with having no self respect. 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.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.