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

Theres 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.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

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

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

I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.