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

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

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

We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.