Top 60 Patrick Stump Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.”

— Patrick Stump

2. “Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger.”

— Patrick Stump

3. “Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.”

— Patrick Stump

4. “No one’s busy thinking bad things about you. They’re all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.”

— Patrick Stump

5. “Quiet IS the new loud.”

— Patrick Stump

6. “Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it’s right in front of us. So keep calm, it’s gonna get better.”

— Patrick Stump

7. “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

8. “I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don’t do.”

— Patrick Stump

9. “You could be your own spotlight!”

— Patrick Stump

10. “One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.”

— Patrick Stump

11. “I’m very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.”

— Patrick Stump

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Patrick Stump

16. “I used to work in a record store. I’m kind of a record nerd.”

— Patrick Stump

17. “There’s no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they’ll probably Google you. It’s a shame – people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I’m angry about something, I’m not going to take to my Twitter.”

— Patrick Stump

18. “Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.”

— Patrick Stump

19. “When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.”

— Patrick Stump

20. “I write really scathing, angry stuff when I’m in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I’m at the absolute bottom.”

— Patrick Stump

21. “The song that’s affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts ‘rapping.’”

— Patrick Stump

22. “Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.”

— Patrick Stump

23. “Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren’t getting along.”

— Patrick Stump

24. “Steven Tyler isn’t in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.”

— Patrick Stump

25. “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

26. “Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.”

— Patrick Stump

27. “Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don’t have anything to say, you stop making art – you might start making product. And I’m interested in being an artist.”

— Patrick Stump

28. “I didn’t want to give up my Illinois driver’s license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.”

— Patrick Stump

29. “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

30. “I don’t mind if someone thinks I’m a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I’m not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I’m doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I’m doing a really bad job there too.”

— Patrick Stump

31. “Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.”

— Patrick Stump

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

— Patrick Stump

33. “Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins.”

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36. “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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37. “In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn’t putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!”

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38. “I really like pop music, I don’t think it’s a four-letter word.”

— Patrick Stump

39. “I always thought ‘Stump’ was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It’s not the most exotic rock-star name.”

— Patrick Stump

40. “Between Prince and my dad’s fusion-jazz records, I didn’t have a choice in being funky.”

— Patrick Stump

41. “I don’t want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.”

— Patrick Stump

42. “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

43. “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

44. “The music that I made in my band wasn’t the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.”

— Patrick Stump

45. “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

46. “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

47. “I think any good artist – and I’m not saying that I am one – takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.”

— Patrick Stump

48. “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

49. “I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don’t regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.”

— Patrick Stump

50. “When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It’s way more fun.”

— Patrick Stump