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

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

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

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.