Patrick Stump Quotes

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

People have good and bad days.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I'm going to have my moody times.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.