In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.
If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.
I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.