Patrick Stump famous quotes

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

#Wisdom #Bad Day #Trying

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

#Appreciation #Real #Thinking

You could be your own spotlight!
-- Patrick Stump

#Spotlight

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. I don't know how to explain it.
-- Patrick Stump

#Girl #Mom #Home

Quiet IS the new loud.
-- Patrick Stump

#Quiet #Loud

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.
-- Patrick Stump

#Thinking #People #Treats

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

#Creativity #Keys #Inspire

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

#Mean #Class #Mind

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

#Google #Trying

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

#Long #Littles #Internet

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

#Thinking #Artist #Fans

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

#Uplifting #Song #Trying

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

#Girl #Silly #Kids

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

#Want #Reason #Standards

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

#Regret #Opportunity #Thinking

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

#Focus #One Day #Records

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

#Want #Facts

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

#Song #Lines #Envelopes

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

#Thinking #Letters #Four

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

#Moving #Hero #Thinking

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

#Expression #Band #Compromise

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

#Two #People #Creative

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

#Mean #Safety #Mohawks

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

#Morning #Night #Persons

Theres 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

#Stupid #Feel Better #Thinking

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

#Art #Fun #Kids

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

#Band #Middle Finger #Fingers

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

#Fall #Boys #Trying

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

#Gravestone #Aerosmith

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

#Fall #Boys #Class

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

#Dad #Choices #Records

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

#Moving #First Love #Firsts

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

#Animal #Hands #Records

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

#Stars #Rocks #Names

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

#Writing #Singing

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

#Fall #Boys #Starting Over

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

#Growing Up #Limits #Korean

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

#Hate #Lennon #Getting Along

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

#Thinking #Busy #Too Busy

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

#Self Esteem #Normal #Haha

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

#Hipster #Uniforms #Plus

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

#Selfish #Arrogant #World

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

#Song #Creating #Stuff

I still have access to enough money to live on in order to avoid bankruptcy for at least a few years as long as I stick to my budget Still, there's no amount of money in the world that makes one feel content with having no self respect. 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

#Stupid #Feel Better #Thinking

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

#Responsibility #Doubt #Get Better

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

#Jobs #Thinking #Knowing

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

#Love #Sin

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
-- Patrick Stump

#Darkness #Get Better #Bullets

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

#Mom #Being Yourself #Love You

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

#Being Yourself #Rocks #Looks

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

#Vegetables #Feelings #Stuff

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

#Song #Writing #Exercise

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

#Uplifting #Writing #Stuff

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

#Thinking #Important #Music Is

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
-- Patrick Stump

#Venting

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

#Being Yourself #Flirting #People

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.
-- Patrick Stump

#Art #Fun #Way