American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting..

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..

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.

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 sam….

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….

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

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 ….

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...ju….

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

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….

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the….

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 ju….

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 t….

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 want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact..

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 close….

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..

You could be your own spotlight!.

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

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