I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

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

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.

I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

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

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.