If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Time is the soul of this world.

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.

I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before.