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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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Patrick Stump
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 27
Actor
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Glenview
Illinois
Patrick Vaughn Stump
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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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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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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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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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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 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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He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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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 used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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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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'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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You could be your own spotlight!
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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'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 love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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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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When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
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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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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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