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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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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.
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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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He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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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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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'd hate wearing suits every day.
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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 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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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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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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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.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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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 have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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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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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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When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
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I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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