He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

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.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.