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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

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Patrick Stump
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 27
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Lyricist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Glenview
Illinois
Patrick Vaughn Stump
Patrick Vaughn Stumph
Patrick Martin Stumph
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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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.
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I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.
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Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.
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I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).
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I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'd hate wearing suits every day.
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The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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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.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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