Top 33 Pete Wentz Quotes

If anyone saw Fall Out Boy’s first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

It’s bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I’m drinking a latte right now? It’s so indulgent.

When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that’s too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.

The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, ‘I never want to have to get a job,’ then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.

When I heard ‘Dookie’ by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it’s totally okay that I’m a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

I remember my first kisses with a lot of people, and they’re rad experiences. And you don’t have to really take it to that next level because that’s what keeps it exciting.

I would never come out and say I was gay, because I’m not gay. And there’s part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?

I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

You’re gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it’s totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it’s not in the long run.

With marriage and fatherhood, I’ve finally found two fixed points in my life. They’ve taught me patience. They’ve also taught me that I don’t need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the ‘Thundercats,’ then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on ‘Married with Children.’

I’m attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there’s no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

I’m not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I’ve grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

I’m a little bit of a makeout king. I don’t discriminate too much.

It’s strange – there’s a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it’s ‘US Weekly,’ where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

I think I ended up on ‘People’s ’50 Most Beautiful People’ list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I’m a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I’m with Bronx, he’s got my complete attention. He’s the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

I’ve been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn’t as engaged as I probably should’ve been.

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn’t matter what it is.

I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I’ve even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I’m creepy. So creepy.

I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It’s the worst thing ever.

I was diagnosed with ADD – see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons – and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.

Somewhere I just want to find someone that’s going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.

I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You’ve just got to be good for that person no matter what’s going on in your head that day.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there’s no paparazzi trying to check that out.

I’ll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

I’m not as well read as I was when I was younger – I just devoured books.