Patrick Stump Quotes

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

Every band goes through breakups or splits.

People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

Don't get me wrong: I love the great times I had with Static-X, but sometimes the writing/recording process was frustrating for me.

With all the different guys in the band and all the different ideas of what's what, it's hard to get everybody on the same page sometimes. We are a very tight brotherhood, but we never know what we're going to do.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.