Patrick Stump Quotations | Page 2

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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