Patrick Stump Quotes & Sayings

Someday you'll meet people who are actually on crack and you won't think that's a super funny thing to say. — Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.' — Patrick Stump

I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store. — Patrick Stump

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. — Patrick Stump

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though. — Patrick Stump

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk. — Patrick Stump

I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery. — Patrick Stump

I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti. — Patrick Stump

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. — Patrick Stump

I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences. — Patrick Stump

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs. — Patrick Stump

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song. — Patrick Stump

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.' — Patrick Stump

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong — Patrick Stump

About Soul Punk:
There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit record out of an art project. — Patrick Stump

You could be your own spotlight! — Patrick Stump

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to. — Patrick Stump

Tattoos are cool. I probably won't ever get any — Patrick Stump

Uh, those problems never fully go away; Nobody's career is invincible. We're beyond blessed to still even have a record deal. — Patrick Stump

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding. — Patrick Stump

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy. — Patrick Stump

Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better. — Patrick Stump

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

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. — Patrick Stump

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

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. — Patrick Stump

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith. — Patrick Stump

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd. — Patrick Stump

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework. — Patrick Stump

I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave. — Patrick Stump

I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too. — Patrick Stump

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me. — Patrick Stump

I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more. — Patrick Stump

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. — Patrick Stump

You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus. — Patrick Stump

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something). — Patrick Stump

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on. — Patrick Stump

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger ... — Patrick Stump

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha) — Patrick Stump

I think writing is a much more personal thing. — Patrick Stump

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky. — Patrick Stump

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along. — Patrick Stump

I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging. — Patrick Stump

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can. — Patrick Stump

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art. — Patrick Stump

Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously! — Patrick Stump

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. — Patrick Stump

I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get. — Patrick Stump

I don't ship anything. Except when I have to send packages through the mail. Now, please stop asking about fanfic. — Patrick Stump

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class. — Patrick Stump

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants. — Patrick Stump

In reply to 'Do you think your old music is better?':
If I did, I would have quit music altogether. You should never put out anything if you don't think it's good. — Patrick Stump

Pessimism is basically being too inflexible or too impatient with your dreams. Thanks for being so kind!!! — Patrick Stump

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much. — Patrick Stump

I'd hate wearing suits every day. — Patrick Stump

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom. — Patrick Stump

Everyday you gotta wake up & be yourself, even if you suck, especially if you suck, because no one else sucks like you suck - Patrick Stump — Patrick Stump

I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook. — Patrick Stump

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to. — Patrick Stump

Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it. — Patrick Stump

Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them ... just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them. — Patrick Stump

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

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. — Patrick Stump

Replies don't matter unless we have actual conversation though. Like, wouldn't you rather be understood than acknowledged — Patrick Stump

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with. — Patrick Stump

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world — Patrick Stump

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better. — Patrick Stump

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them. — Patrick Stump

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language. — Patrick Stump

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star. — Patrick Stump

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something. — Patrick Stump

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves. — Patrick Stump

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better. — Patrick Stump

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins — Patrick Stump

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. — Patrick Stump

I'm a vampire. So I don't age. Except I chew vegetables instead of suck blood. — Patrick Stump

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there! — Patrick Stump

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves. — Patrick Stump

Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh. — Patrick Stump

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions. — Patrick Stump

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress. — Patrick Stump

God, is too complicated a concept to tweet about. As the Simpsons said: "Short answer 'No,' Long answer 'Yes,' with a 'But, — Patrick Stump

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

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming. — Patrick Stump

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. — Patrick Stump

There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere. — Patrick Stump

Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen. — Patrick Stump

Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really ... — Patrick Stump

I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately. — Patrick Stump

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you. — Patrick Stump

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist. — Patrick Stump

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do. — Patrick Stump

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism. — Patrick Stump

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing. — Patrick Stump

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?':
Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness. — Patrick Stump

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact. — Patrick Stump

Quiet is the new loud. — Patrick Stump

In reply to "Why are people at school such d*cks"
Cause they're sad and scared and insecure. Don't let them spread it to you. Try and spread confidence and kindness — Patrick Stump

I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much. — Patrick Stump

There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter. — Patrick Stump