I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

I think writing is a much more personal thing.

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

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

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

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