I dont know, we played a show for like, ten kids, but those ten kids w — Patrick Stump

"Im probably the only guy in the world that likes to eat black licorice."

"Sometimes people associate getting big with selling out, which is funny because thats not something you necessarily have choice in. Thats not a matter that is entirely up to you and at the same time, who hasnt sold out? If youve heard of a specific artist, theyre big enough--they got to you. Where do you draw the line between whats big and whats too big?"

"Theres so many accusations that are so ridiculous about Pete Wentz that are taken as the gospel—people just assume that he posted pictures of his penis on the internet. That is the stupidest fucking thing thing Ive ever heard. Why on earth would you ever do that?"

"I hear all sorts of things slung at us, one of my favorites being the "boy-band" accusation. Im like, Boy band? Im fat! If we were a boy band, Id look good, Id dance and Id be charming - so what the fuck are you talking about? I write songs, thats all I do.Rolling Stone: Fall Out Boy"

"Ive heard a lot of really awful, negative things said about Pete, and its like, “Dude, you dont even have a clue how honest and real that guy is” for the amount of crap that people talk about him. Pete said it, and its true, they make you into a wrestling character. And its also like reality TV editing. Its really easy to cut somebody in rolling their eyes when that might not have even happened next to the thing that its being shown next to."

"I think Joes underappreciated, I think Andys underappreciated, I think Petes underappreciated, I dont think people know how good he is. I think Neal [Avron]s underappreciated, but if anything, I feel overappreciated. I think Patrick Stump gets enough attention."

"Gentlemen, no fighting please. This is, after all, a council of war. (p. 26)"

"I should say that when people talk about capitalism its a bit of a joke. Theres no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free market, free market discipline. Free markets are for others. Like, the Third World is the Third World because they had free markets rammed down their throat. Meanwhile, the enlightened states, England, the United States, others, resorted to massive state intervention to protect private power, and still do. Thats right up to the present. I mean, the Reagan administration for example was the most protectionist in post-war American history. Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and intervention: computers, the internet, telecommunication, automation, pharmaceutical, you just name it. Run through it, and you find massive ripoffs of the public, meaning, a system in which under one guise or another the public pays the costs and takes the risks, and profit is privatized. Thats very remote from a free market. Free market is like what India had to suffer for a couple hundred years, and most of the rest of the Third World."

"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giants shoulders to mount on."

"If civilization has an opposite, it is war."

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"

"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art."