Patrick Stump Quotes

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

I always have to be me.

I always wanted to be different. If it was different I liked it. And it wasn't because I was just trying so hard to be different, it's just by nature.

No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.