I don't think we're going to play any of them yet -- we have a hard enough time playing for an hour and 15 minutes -- we're dying after that, |
I feel like we've figured out how to write Fall Out Boy music, but I don't really feel like we've written the definitive Fall Out Boy song yet, where I'm like, 'Wow, that is Fall Out Boy.' So I guess it is continually evolving. But at the same time, it's not growth just for the sake of growth. As you get older and you see the world, your tastes change and hopefully your mind kind of opens. |
I think that when you spend all of your time focusing on what everybody else wants and what everybody else needs and what is good for the band, sometimes you neglect what's the best for you, |
I think that's a really easy thing to emote over, ... But I think when you make an attempt to be more introspective, I think you can be just as emotionally jarring and even scarier because all of the sudden you're not pointing at someone else. You're pointing at yourself. And you're like, wow, this is me who's doing all this. |
I think the problem is that bands start feeling the heat and then they try and rub sticks together and start a fire of their own, whereas Fall Out Boy, we're completely happy to go out and blaze a path. If people are following us down it, that's cool - otherwise, it will be fun for us to go out and hang by ourselves. |
I think we were kind of aggravated at the way bands only write titles that will fit inside DJs' mouths perfectly. We were kind of annoyed with that. At the same time, I think we always kind of want to give people something that they won't expect so maybe on the next record, it won't be like that. Maybe it'll be 'Track One,' 'Track Two,' 'Track Three.' That's what our humor's like and how we think as people. |
I totally miss all that stuff. Touring in a van, playing small shows — those end up being the coolest times. Sure, they were terrible at the time, and we slept on a lot of floors next to a lot of cat poop. But when you think about them, they were what brought everybody together. They were like adventures. |
I want people to know that who you are in highschool, isn't gonna be who you are for the of your life. We were all geeks in high shool, and now look at us, now we're on TR *#@#$* L ! YEAH! |
I write the lyrics. Patrick writes the music. We are in love and live in a castle in the sky. Our next door neighbors are carebears. Grumpy bear has a Baditude, but I still heart him. I hope your life is as magical as ours is. |
I'll be honest, those are all right pictures. But had I known that 4 million people would have seen me naked, I would have probably tried to take more flattering pictures. But at least now me and Morrissey have taken our first press photo together. |
I'm gonna say something unpopular here, but I'm the one with the microphone, and you're not. |
If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world. |
If you know me you know how uncool I am. I stutter, wear bad clothes, make bad jokes, make conversation uncomfortable, the list goes on. Thank you for making me feel okay. |
It was a white A-Team van, and because it had no windows, it was hot as crap. It had a big flower spray-painted on the side. The brakes went out on it when we were driving down this alley, and I go to our guitar tech — there was a fence and there was this other van — so I go, 'Fence or van? 'Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and he said, 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and it bounced into the van. |
It was just the last straw for me. They are a multi-platinum band. What's the point of going after us? |