Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

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

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

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

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.

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.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company