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.

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

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.