American - Musician | April 27, 1984 -
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!
Patrick Stump
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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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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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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.
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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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