Poor kid.

Andy is saying that the whole thing was taken out of context, but... if those are direct quotes, there doesn't seem to be too many ways to take them.

And it's definitely not the first time he's said that, either.

From a recent AP article:

It's been a bumpier ride for Joe Trohman since the release of Infinity. There was a time not long ago when the FOB co-founder didn't feel so connected to the band, mainly because he fell for one of the newer "old" tricks in the book: He started believing the internet. "I felt, 'Man, this isn't my band anymore.' It's no one's fault, and I don't want to make it seem that way. It was more of a complex I developed myself based off of the stuff I was reading," he says during a follow up interview from his home in Chicago. "It's hard to hear, 'Joe and Andy are just along for the ride.'"

Trohman, who recently popped the question to his fiancée during a trip to Tokyo, took some time to himself and worked on music with other people (nothing he wants to make public). Then he had a heart-to-heart with Stump, leading to more collaboration on Folie A Deux. "It made me feel like I owned the songs a lot more," he says. "It made me really excited about contributing to Fall Out Boy and made me find my role in the band."

"We've all had our times like that," says Stump later about Trohman's story. "I've had times like that in the band where I'm like, 'Oh, no one cares what I think.' Pete's had times like that, Andy's had times like that. We've all quit at some point. And all of us are still here, so that tells you something."

Trohman is in a different mindset now, so when you get him going about the new album, he won't stop. "There are just these different weird guitar parts in it. It think a lot of our influences get overlooked, like Metallica, Prince, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones. People hear maybe some funk and the pop-punk an stop at that," he says, before going on a Queen rant. "I love Queen, and I hear a lot of that on the record. I think the guys might get annoyed with me saying that all of the time, but I just love Queen. And all of the vocal harmonies remind me of Queen." He stops for a moment and laughs. "Man, I feel like I need to get a new shtick."