Patrick Stump Quotes

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.

I've made movies where I was not happy, and I'd rather not work for a year than do a bad film. It takes a long time for me to recuperate when I do that.

Always put out content that you are 100% happy with.

If I'm not happy with the quality of something I'm working on, I won't put it out. That does not mean that others won't question the quality.

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.