Patrick Stump

"Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C."

"Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves."

"I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name."

"Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually."

"I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world."

"I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning."

"I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can."

"Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods."

"There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty."