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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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Patrick Stump
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 27
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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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I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.
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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 love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
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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're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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You could be your own spotlight!
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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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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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 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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