Pete Wentz Quotes (40 Quotes)

A lot of bands in music history have had titles that were easy for radio DJs. We wanted to have titles that were true to the songs. That sets us apart.

When you're playing hard-core music and you're screaming every night, it just grates on your ears, and at some point, the grass is always greener. You want to be doing something different.

to go down in the annals of history for that. But I don't want to live in that rut forever.

This is the thing about pressure. It's like people say, 'We finally understand Fall Out Boy and we finally got it figured out and let's squeeze more of this out of them.' And meanwhile, when you figured out what we were doing four years ago, we're gonna do this other thing and you're gonna be like, 'I don't know if it's gonna work.' And it might not work, whatever, but we're not gonna sit there and try to squeeze like every single drop of blood out of us.

Once 3 or 4 million people have seen you naked, it's kind of liberating and you don't really care. But at the time it felt like the dream where you wake up at school with no pants on ... and the school is 4 million people.

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz said part of his band's enthusiasm for the project came from being able to teach a new generation about punk heroes like the band they covered, New York's legendary Gorilla Biscuits. It's a band that we grew up on and thought was really cool, ... It's definitely influenced Fall Out Boy, so it's definitely cool to be a stepping stone for that band for people to check them out.

They're way different -- the songs are way more soulful. They open up Patrick's voice a lot more. On the last record, the lyrics were about 'This is where we're going to be a year from now, and this is what you're going to be saying about us.' But this time, we realized that a lot of bands should spend less time running their mouths and more time writing their songs.

We've been very see-through about our intentions, and people appreciate that. The thing about this scene and the generation of bands before us that everybody touted -- nobody can live up to the pressure of being called the next Nirvana. Nobody can live up to that.

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

It's like a bunch of hard-core kids who decided they were going to write pop music.

I write the lyrics. Patrick writes the music. We are in love and live in a castle in the sky. Our next door neighbors are carebears. Grumpy bear has a Baditude, but I still heart him. I hope your life is as magical as ours is.

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

One time I fell in love with a cat, and then I realized it wasn't a human being. It was not as sexy as we thought.

Looking back on what he likes to think of now as his whine-tasting ... It's a really limited perspective, but I remember at the time it was very, very cathartic. When somebody hangs up on the phone when you're 2,000 miles away from them, you have no recourse. The only reaction there is, is a pen. There's nothing else that you can do.

I think that when you spend all of your time focusing on what everybody else wants and what everybody else needs and what is good for the band, sometimes you neglect what's the best for you,

It's something we've always wanted to do as a band, just a quick jaunt through VFW halls and venues like that. We'd announce the show the night before or maybe play under some secret names. And we thought it would be cool because we don't feel like any band has gotten to a certain size and still gone on a VFW hall tour. So we'd like to play a couple of dates on the East Coast. Watch out for it.

We sent him demos and we're just waiting to hear from him. And I would imagine that a guy like that, like I get four demos a day, I can imagine he gets like 4 million a day. So I guess we're just gonna kind of wait and hear. But it's definitely on our wish list.

Texas is always amazing. All the rumors about it are true and the shows are insane. Austin police threatened to arrest us, and we were fined 15,000 dollars for playing Saturday past curfew. Definitely worth it.

We are just ordinary boys in an extraordinary position. That can be inspiring for other ordinary people. If there is any revolution we are inspiring it is that we have taken our own fate into our own hands. We are total control freaks.

Of course, we haven't spoke to anybody at Island Records about this yet -- but you should go ahead and print this, because it'll just make them sweat.

That's just a decision that I made and some friends of mine thought was a good idea and some people within the band thought was a good idea, ... That's why Japan was canceled.

I think the problem is that bands start feeling the heat and then they try and rub sticks together and start a fire of their own, whereas Fall Out Boy, we're completely happy to go out and blaze a path. If people are following us down it, that's cool - otherwise, it will be fun for us to go out and hang by ourselves.

I think we were kind of aggravated at the way bands only write titles that will fit inside DJs' mouths perfectly. We were kind of annoyed with that. At the same time, I think we always kind of want to give people something that they won't expect so maybe on the next record, it won't be like that. Maybe it'll be 'Track One,' 'Track Two,' 'Track Three.' That's what our humor's like and how we think as people.

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.

Gay' is not another word for 'shitty' if you want to call the band shitty, then say they're shitty. Don't call them gay, because GAY is NOT another word for shitty..... you homophobic assholes.

If you know me you know how uncool I am. I stutter, wear bad clothes, make bad jokes, make conversation uncomfortable, the list goes on. Thank you for making me feel okay.

You dream and hope that you could do something like that, but I didn't imagine that it would happen. I looked at bands like Guns N' Roses and I wanted to be that guy. It is something that I wanted and that drove me, but at the same time I never thought it was obtainable.

The past five months have been really crazy for us, ... It's kind of cool because we're hidden on a bus in, like, Omaha, Nebraska, or wherever, so we've never actually seen our video on MTV. So it's kind of bizarre to think that it gets played on MTV and is on 'TRL' all the time.

Nature shows suck ass, though cobras are pretty sweet. Pretty much any animal that has a gang named after it is pretty bad ass. I would go for an animal combo, like a bear that carried a cobra -- total unstoppable force. Give that thing wings and humanity is fed.

I don't think we're going to play any of them yet -- we have a hard enough time playing for an hour and 15 minutes -- we're dying after that,

I totally miss all that stuff. Touring in a van, playing small shows those end up being the coolest times. Sure, they were terrible at the time, and we slept on a lot of floors next to a lot of cat poop. But when you think about them, they were what brought everybody together. They were like adventures.

It is not an ode to the '60s RB legends and their lead singer. A lot of these songs are our responses to how we thought people would feel about us a year from when we were writing them, ... When you suddenly get successful, people are very interested in being your muse.

We've never been about goals or expectations. It's exciting and fun for us.

I'll be honest, those are all right pictures. But had I known that 4 million people would have seen me naked, I would have probably tried to take more flattering pictures. But at least now me and Morrissey have taken our first press photo together.

Sometimes, I'll be walking down the street, and people will be like, 'You're the guy from the antlers video' And you can't go certain places. We have two buses now. Jay-Z has called me on the phone. 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.

I think that's a really easy thing to emote over, ... But I think when you make an attempt to be more introspective, I think you can be just as emotionally jarring and even scarier because all of the sudden you're not pointing at someone else. You're pointing at yourself. And you're like, wow, this is me who's doing all this.

I feel like we've figured out how to write Fall Out Boy music, but I don't really feel like we've written the definitive Fall Out Boy song yet, where I'm like, 'Wow, that is Fall Out Boy.' So I guess it is continually evolving. But at the same time, it's not growth just for the sake of growth. As you get older and you see the world, your tastes change and hopefully your mind kind of opens.

They relate kind of in our own heads. They're always like nostalgia or inside jokes. They have a connection to us, but the connection isn't always obvious. As we're making the songs, somehow along the process, they tie back to our brain, and they read simply like the Bible or 'Aesop's Fables' to us.

OK, I can say some more about the video. I got a new analogy for you about it. It's like R. Kelly's 'Trapped in the Closet,' meets Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' ... But with the prologue and epilogue still taking place on the Internet. And I'm being completely serious. Wrap your mind around that.

Definitely. If I wasn't ordinary, this wouldn't feel really strange to me. It would feel very deserved and feel like vindication whereas being ordinary, thinking that I'm probably a pretty normal, ordinary person, I feel like we got put in a fish tank, kind of by accident.