When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

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.

My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

You mainly feel the way you think.

Brain cancer has a latency in the population of 40 years.

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.