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

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.

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

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.