Pete Wentz Quotes on Time (7 Quotes)

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.