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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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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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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 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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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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I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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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 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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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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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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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
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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 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.
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