Patrick Stump Quotes

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

It's really cathartic to play my songs live. I'm a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.