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Patrick Stump Quotes

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

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

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

When you’re No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

– 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 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

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

– 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

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 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

Quiet is the new loud.

– 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

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

– Patrick Stump

I used to work in a record store. I’m kind of a record nerd.

– 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

– 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

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.

– Patrick Stump