Patrick Stump Quotes

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

I feel like there are things that inspire the music, and then there's the music itself. I don't feel like I always need to force them together.

There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.