The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

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.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings.

Ish #153 "Artificial plants grow best in artificial light.

Life without caution is like a car without brake.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.