I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

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.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

But...that doesn't make any sense...!''It does if you're a goat.

Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.