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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.

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Patrick Stump
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 27
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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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I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
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I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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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 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.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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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.
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I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
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Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
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I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.
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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.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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