Latest Patrick Stump Quotes from Interviews

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• I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

  Patrick Stump

  Writing, Mean, Fit

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

• Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

  Patrick Stump

  Art, Thinking, Effort

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  People, Giving, Idiot

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Nice, Thinking, Sheep

• My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

  Patrick Stump

  Play, Space, Buckets

• 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

  Blessed, Lucky, Band

• I'd hate wearing suits every day.

  Patrick Stump

  Hate, Suits, Wearing A Suit

• I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

  Patrick Stump

  Attention, Records, Want

• 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

  Hanging Out, Fascinating, Seems

• Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.

  Patrick Stump

  Gnarly, Cold Hearted, Naked

• I think writing is a much more personal thing.

  Patrick Stump

  Writing, Thinking, Personal Things

• There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Silly, Play

• 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

  Waiting, Want, Wanted

• Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

  Patrick Stump

  Stars, Handsome, Enough

  "The Idolator Interview: Butch Walker And Patrick Stump". www.idolator.com. December 16, 2008.

• I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

  Patrick Stump

  Artist, Names, Personality

  "The Idolator Interview: Butch Walker And Patrick Stump". www.idolator.com. December 16, 2008.

• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, People, Treats

  Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Girl, Mom, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Class, Mind

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  Patrick Stump

  Google, Trying, I Can

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Artist, Want

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Long, Littles, Internet

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Uplifting, Song, Trying

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

  Patrick Stump

  Want, Reason, Standards

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

• Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.

  Patrick Stump

  Girl, Silly, Kids

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.