I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.

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

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

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

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.