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

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.

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

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

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

I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.