I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

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.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.