Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

I think writing is a much more personal thing.