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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
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Glenview
Illinois
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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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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 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'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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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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You could be your own spotlight!
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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 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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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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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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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'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
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I'd hate wearing suits every day.
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Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the 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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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 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 always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
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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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