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Pete Wentz Quotes

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.

– Pete Wentz

I don’t get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

– Pete Wentz

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn’t feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

– 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 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

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.

– Pete Wentz

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

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

– Pete Wentz

I’m in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

– 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

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.

– Pete Wentz

I’m Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is ‘Moonwalker’ – it’s my favorite movie of all time.

– 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

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

– Pete Wentz

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.

– Pete Wentz

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

– 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

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

– Pete Wentz

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.

– 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

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

– 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

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record – I support art.

– 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 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

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.

– 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

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

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

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