Patrick Stump:
I guess to me, when I read the finished piece, it said to me...that kind of fury that you have when you're an adult which is a different one than the one you have when you're a teenager. 'cause when you're a teenager you can things like, these permanent things like "I hope you choke", and "I hope you die" and all these other things. When you're an adult, the people that you said that to when you were a teenager are still around, and you still have to interact with and that's like...and you have to figure out how to deal with that, and that's like permanent, and you just always have to...and that's the rest of your life.
Here I'm seething with anger, and I just have to..."hi". (waves) To me, that's a lot of what that song is when I read it, is like...it's so much of that anger but compressed into the smile that you have to have as a gentleman.
Pete Wentz:
Like when you do take account of your life, sometimes it's alright to just burn it, raze it, and start fresh. I think that, for me, it's happened a couple times, and it's been, like, a healthy thing.
From Grammy interview-
Patrick Stump: I guess to me, when I read the finished piece, it said to me...that kind of fury that you have when you're an adult which is a different one than the one you have when you're a teenager. 'cause when you're a teenager you can things like, these permanent things like "I hope you choke", and "I hope you die" and all these other things. When you're an adult, the people that you said that to when you were a teenager are still around, and you still have to interact with and that's like...and you have to figure out how to deal with that, and that's like permanent, and you just always have to...and that's the rest of your life.
Here I'm seething with anger, and I just have to..."hi". (waves) To me, that's a lot of what that song is when I read it, is like...it's so much of that anger but compressed into the smile that you have to have as a gentleman.
Pete Wentz: Like when you do take account of your life, sometimes it's alright to just burn it, raze it, and start fresh. I think that, for me, it's happened a couple times, and it's been, like, a healthy thing.
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