Pete Wentz Quotes

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

They did a study and found that countless men would choose gambling over love if given the chance. Even more would choose pornography over love if given the chance. We are cavemen; and it seems like that will never change. I wonder if the men they
studied have ever really been in love? I wonder how corporations will use this information to their advantage? "Hallmark cards and boxes of Fanny May chocolates will save humanity," or something to the effect. It depresses me to think about it. ~ Pete Wentz

My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe ... ~ Pete Wentz

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing. ~ Pete Wentz

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

But you couldn't touch this kid right now, bullets would have dodged him. ~ Pete Wentz

Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on. ~ Pete Wentz

Someone once told me that digging up the past has two sides: The pro is that you remember things you had forgotten about. Unfortunately, the con is the exact same thing. That may scare some people away, might force them to always be moving forward, never looking back, not for a second. ~ Pete Wentz

I've got sunsets on the insides of my eyelids. ~ Pete Wentz

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. ~ Pete Wentz

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy. ~ Pete Wentz

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag. ~ Pete Wentz

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer. ~ Pete Wentz

I'm gay above the waist. ~ Pete Wentz

This story never really had a point. It's just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters. ~ Pete Wentz

We're sick of hearing people say, "That band is so gay," or "Those guys are fags." Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something's shitty, say it's shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes. ~ Pete Wentz

It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.' ~ Pete Wentz

I've always been a dreamer, have always believed
in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time,
I'm starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone
the second it leaves your mind? ~ Pete Wentz

Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close. ~ Pete Wentz

I don't have an issue finding guys attractive. ~ Pete Wentz

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online. ~ Pete Wentz

♥"I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart."♥ ~ Pete Wentz

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers. ~ Pete Wentz

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes. ~ Pete Wentz

She pulls me toward her, tells me, "You're sweet, you know that?" I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this
time. Our hearts will see to it. ~ Pete Wentz

The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them. ~ Pete Wentz

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? ~ Pete Wentz

I'm a bit of a tease. I'd make out with a lot of people but not go beyond that. ~ Pete Wentz

We're just like a movie based on a book
almost, but not quite as good. ~ Pete Wentz

For whatever reason, it seems like we're against love. Everyone. People think love equates to weakness, or gullibility, or an unwillingness to deal with reality, so they try to
ruin it, the social scientists and the admen, with studies and lingerie shows and boxes of candy. They try to invalidate it, dirty it up, but they can't, because people in love know
the truth. They know love is good and pure and really the most beautiful thing in the world. They know love is greater than anything, greater even than God. At first, I didn't
believe it, but I do now. You have made me realize it. Being away from you has been the hardest thing I have ever done. I am shaking and sweating. I am going into withdrawal. I need you. You are my withdrawal. You are my blood.
I want to protect you from all of this. When it's all over, I want to run away with you and never come back. I want to be buried in the ground with you. It's the only way we can keep this pure and beautiful, I'm afraid. We have to stay away from this whole life. We have to be normal. We have to get married and move to Berkeley. Our love can't
survive like this, no matter how hard we try. I'm quitting the band. I'm coming home. I need you. ~ Pete Wentz

However,
when given the chance, many people choose cocaine over love. I wouldn't say that's a
bad choice. The endorphins released during infatuation are similar to heroin. OxyContin,
"the cuddling hormone," most often found in new mothers and newlyweds, is like ecstasy;
every touch tingles. I think I read that somewhere. Love exists in powder. Love exists in
pills. We are all addicts. ~ Pete Wentz

My conflicts of conscience are about the only battles I'm fighting these days, and I'm willing to fight until the end. There is something freeing
about this life, about living out of a single backpack and disappearing into the night. About smelling terrible and never remembering people's names. About never having to say you're sorry. We exist outside of society. We stay up late and sleep even later. We
are bandits, pirates, serial killers. The dregs. Someone should lock us up and never let us out again. But instead, they give us their money, they offer us their beds. We are not
going to pay for the beer. We are not going to be back here for a good, long while. We have prior engagements. We have the money in a duffel bag. We have no shame. Fuck guilt. Back to life. ~ Pete Wentz

I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time. ~ Pete Wentz

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands. ~ Pete Wentz

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry. ~ Pete Wentz

He sang "I wish I weren't me" over and over again just flat of the key of love until he forgot the words and could only hum along. Everyday was the same. The same stupid smile on the same stupid boy. Until the days blurred into a haze and the boy dropped into a depression. Not a cool dark room and cigarette depression like the songs he loved, but one that felt like he was being smothered by a safe, suburban, monotonous blanket. Everything felt like a headache to the boy. Every face, every stupid stuttered sentence all wrapped up into the biggest headache ever. So the boy took an aspirin. And another and another and then went to sleep, lullabyed by hopes he would never wake up to. ~ Pete Wentz

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music. ~ Pete Wentz

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what. ~ Pete Wentz

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that. ~ Pete Wentz

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know. ~ Pete Wentz

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep. ~ Pete Wentz

He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved. ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

I shit you not, it heard the plan ~ Pete Wentz

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt. ~ Pete Wentz

It's all the same to me - a fucking red flag
emblazoned with the words DO NOT BECOME EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED WITH ME, and this bed is barely big enough for my own baggage. ~ Pete Wentz

Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach. ~ Pete Wentz

I'll be your number one with a bullet. ~ Pete Wentz

I am a corpse bored with my own funeral. I live like a gypsy, only with less gold and maybe more curses. ~ Pete Wentz

But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum. ~ Pete Wentz

He is the straight to video sequel to your summer hit movie. He is the verse to that song on the radio you have to hum cause you can't remember the words. You couldn't break this kid's heart, he is so far beyond that. This is the kind of kid who blew out the candles on hope all alone for too many birthdays to remember. And no one has ever fallen in love with anyone with a smile that's dripping with "please die". ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator ... it
would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I'd always be in the red. ~ Pete Wentz

This is how your heart gets
snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. ~ Pete Wentz

If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they've concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide, and some people think I'm showing them the whole room. But all they're getting is a glimpse. That's all I want to show most people. ~ Pete Wentz

It's awful, writing such terrible things about the person you love, but I'll take a pen and paper over a psychiatrist's chair any day of the week. This is my therapy. ~ Pete Wentz

Life is merely a numbers game, a series of odds, and eventually we all lose. To think otherwise is foolish. But if we didn't, why would anyone ever bother getting out of bed in the morning? ~ Pete Wentz

So id burn this whole city down just to show you the light ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going on. They called me up to go to a Kanye West concert, and I was like 'hold on I'll call Kanye.' So I called him and they got into the show, and I called Kanye later and said, 'Yo did you see my dudes from Panic! at the show?' and he was like 'Nah they mst not have been dressed like they were from the 1700's'. But I back them. They have their own unique style, which is cool. ~ Pete Wentz

My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.". ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me. ~ Pete Wentz

Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to. ~ Pete Wentz

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.' ~ Pete Wentz

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching. ~ Pete Wentz

It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag. ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

Dont let anyone tell you what you are ever- that way you never run the danger of becoming anything but what you believe in. ~ Pete Wentz

My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing. ~ Pete Wentz

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control. ~ Pete Wentz

I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number of people I've had sex with very low, because I never wanted to have to tell my future wife, "Oh, yeah, I was with 30 people." ~ Pete Wentz

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

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over. ~ Pete Wentz

There's nothing worse than watching an old wrinkly guy going, 'Hey, baby.' You're like, 'Dude, that's lame.' It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone. ~ Pete Wentz

I'm not just taking trips down memory lane; I'm broken down on it. ~ Pete Wentz

Girls are like apples ... the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree ... ~ Pete Wentz

She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn't seem all that daunting. She's the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one - all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever - I know it's still a long shot. Life ruins everything. ~ Pete Wentz

That's the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can't make it perfect. I can't keep it in a bottle, can't ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and they're making tremendous advances every day. They're winning the war against love. It's probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there's room for love in either of those scenarios. ~ Pete Wentz

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth. ~ Pete Wentz

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery ~ Pete Wentz

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do. ~ Pete Wentz

Don't wear eyeliner with too much facial hair. It looks strange. ~ Pete Wentz

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. ~ Pete Wentz

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift. ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

They finally pushed me out, It's cool though cos I hae a dog. ~ Pete Wentz

These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself. ~ Pete Wentz

If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world. ~ Pete Wentz

You should be able to grab people with ideas. ~ Pete Wentz

There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that's how she is stuck in my mind forever.
We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together. ~ Pete Wentz

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

I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it. ~ Pete Wentz

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books. ~ Pete Wentz

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

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. ~ Pete Wentz

It wasn't me! Look at how little I am. I'm a little guy. ~ Pete Wentz

Sometimes I am willing to believe in anything if it means ignoring the reality of a situation. ~ Pete Wentz

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. ~ Pete Wentz

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts. ~ Pete Wentz