People From Florida

"And here I always thought morality was useless"

"Every major city has a section like this one. If a piebald dwarf with advanced leprosy wants to have sex with a kangaroo and a teenage choir, he'll find his way here and get a room. When he's done he might take the whole gang next door for a cup of Cuban coffee and a medianioche sandwich. Nobody would care, as long as he tipped."

"I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport."

"Killing makes me feel good."

"Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there."

"Incompetence is rewarded more often than not."

"Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them."

"Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting."

"I'm a very neat monster."

"He's got great balance and great vision, and Emmitt has earned his starting spot."

"Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves."

"Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive."

"It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job."

"Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person."

"We've got a lot of young guys. A lot of good, young guys. But young guys can go out there and learn how to win quickly. I feel good about the guys behind me. I know that if I'm not in there, they'll do just as well as me."

"Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things."

"In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing."

"What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible."

"History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history."

"I love to play bid whist as much as I love football."

"My idea, my dream, my goal, is to go out and legitimize this sport and compete at the Olympic Games with my peers in the football arena."

"As a player, Ray Lewis was extremely well known for delivering jarring shots that immediately stopped the forward movement of opposing players. As a media member, now he's taking shots at the very core of opposition movements."

"A linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football."

"Remove the word black and say 'lives matter'... Stop sending mothers back home empty. You can never replace a mother's child. If we want black lives matter, let's make it matter to us. That's the new call."

"I definitely got initiated on that tour; they would rip my underwear off me everyday. I hated it, dude. I should have stopped wearing underwear."

"The moment you meet him you're like 'this dude's famous,' whether a million people know it or no one knows it. The first time I met him, when I was like 16, I was like, 'This is a dude I want to know.' He just has a magnetic personality. And I think there's something kind of cool about the front man of our band being the bassist who doesn't sing."

"Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman is a fine player born from the world of pop-punk, but so too has he flexed his musical muscles in other genres, something best exemplified by his work as the lead guitarist of beloved hard rock supergroup the Damned Things. He’s another pop-punk player with classic rock and metal influences, chief among those being Eddie Van Halen, about whom Trohman penned a tribute for Variety in 2020 where he labeled the late Van Halen founder’s playing as something which “can transport you away from your problems, into a state of pure, unadulterated joy.” Amen."

"I’m gonna feel guilty about this for a while. It’s the Jew in me – like, 'Oh, no, you spent money!'"

"Those chimps and orangutans [in our music video] get treated better than the ones in zoos. They’re loved, and they’re taken care of much better and cleaned much better. And they’re only allowed to work a certain amount of time every day. Plus, we had someone from Animal Protection there the entire time, making sure everything was cool. It’s really weird that people got pissed off about that. Those animals were treated quite well, probably better than most humans, and definitely better than animals in the zoo."

"There’s a lot of spaz inside of me. I know people don’t want to see it throughout the day, so I figure, why not unleash it all onstage."

"I did play a ’63 Relic. Before people cared about FOB I played a lot of Les Pauls and Les Paul Juniors."

"I really like Morrissey. I really wanna kiss Morrissey."

"I’ve tried to make myself comfortable with most of the fretboard as possible. I like pentatonic scales because I’ve always been a big Tony Iommi fan. I play along with those a lot. I grew up playing a lot of heavy metal; I’m probably better at that than playing Fall Out Boy."

"I’ve tried to make myself someone who can play a decent variety of stuff. I’ve even made myself learn things that I didn’t want to learn, a kind of picking or playing that I just never would’ve gotten into otherwise. It’s made me an all-around better player."

"Rolling Stone: Fall Out Boy interview"

"If [music] has that tag on it, regardless if it sounds like that or not they’ll never go and find out what it really sounds like. To be labeled “emo” is sometimes very apropos, because there are a bunch of bands that actually sound like carbon copies of each other. But again, that’s music, so."

"If people want to call us emo, that’s totally cool. We started out as a pop punk band, because we were very much interested in giving the band a sound like Green Day or The Descendents, but I think we’ve turned into a rock band. Some of our lyrics are definitely emotional, but some Zeppelin lyrics are pretty emotional, too. You could call them an emo band as well."

"The thing that fucks up bands a lot is when everybody wants to do everything. We were never like "You’re designated this position and you’re designated that." We’ve designated ourselves certain general positions, like I write a tiny bit, but my best thing is getting out there and putting on the best live show possible. That’s been my number one goal personally."

"We mean a lot to each other as musicians and people, but sometimes we start believing what people write about us: The band is just one guy or two guys. That can be harsh for the soul."

"You can’t judge a band until you see them live really. Sometimes it makes people love bands they hated."

"Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman: 'My Best Thing Is Putting On The Best Live Show' (2008)"

"(sings) 80 Bucks I want my 80 bucks!"

"The other day I went to a Japanese restaurant and then to Target, and I got bugged. But just last night, I went to a jazz bar. Nobody bugged me there. So it all depends upon where I go to hang out. It’s never that bad. Honestly, most people are like super cool, and they’ll just come up to me and shake hands, and that’ll be it. But it rarely gets out of control."

"I thought this was a candy dispenser! Fucking candy!"

"I was born without muscles in my mouth, so I can't smile. But, I'm real happy. I'm super happy right now. I'm ecstatic."

"When I was a kid, my parents got me into piano, viola, and trombone. They were the three instruments I went through. The moment I started playing trombone, which was the last one before guitar, I knew I wanted to play guitar really badly. I was a huge Metallica fan, and I’m really into Slash. I’ve always thought he was the coolest dude, and like the greatest guitar player. He’s awesome, and I love the fact that he did everything himself. He made the world of guitar fit around him, rather than him fitting around the world of guitar, which I think is really cool."

"I don't even know why you film me. I don't say anything. I just sit here and blush. It's fucking ridiculous"

"So many different styles of music have influenced us individually and as a band. I think heavy metal is there. It’s not always the most predominant factor in Fall Out Boy, but it’s definitely there. Andy and I are huge metal heads."

"When I was getting into punk rock and hardcore when I was younger, "emo" was like Fugazi. It was these weird bands that were almost like post hardcore or post punk bands. Many were really political. Emo had to do with how they would vocalize, not the way in which it refers to our music."

"We love to boast that we are a nation of immigrants — and we are. But there's a different sense of America among those who trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice."