When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.
Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.
No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.
Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.
I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
You could be your own spotlight!
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong
Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
Quiet IS the new loud.
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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.
My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.
I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.
I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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.
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.
