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.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

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.

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

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

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.