Everything I’ve ever wanted to do, we’ve kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I’ve been so happy with the band, and we’re so lucky and blessed to be able to do it. — Patrick Stump

The music that I made in my band wasn’t the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. — Patrick Stump

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger. — Patrick Stump

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy. — Patrick Stump

I really like pop music, I don’t think it’s a four–letter word. — Patrick Stump

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn’t want to do it, just to do it. We didn’t want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much. — Patrick Stump

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that’s a really important thing to carry with you. — Patrick Stump

I don’t believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white–power music or something). — Patrick Stump

The music business is one of a few places where everything you’ve heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it’s true. — Patrick Stump

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. — Patrick Stump

When you’re No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs. — Patrick Stump

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. — Patrick Stump

He’s writing what I’m singing, and I’m writing what he’s playing. — Patrick Stump

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework. — Patrick Stump

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. — Patrick Stump

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he’s up to because he seems so fascinating to me. — Patrick Stump

Between Prince and my dad’s fusion–jazz records, I didn’t have a choice in being funky. — Patrick Stump

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she’s trying to get you to be someone you’re not, she’s in the wrong — Patrick Stump

I don’t want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact. — Patrick Stump

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren’t getting along. — Patrick Stump

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves. — Patrick Stump

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better. — Patrick Stump