Quotes by Pete Wentz

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.

It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

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.

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

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

The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.

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.

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?

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.

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

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Let's just make it through tonight, worry about the rest later.

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

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

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.

Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45.

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

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

I think I ended up on 'Peoples '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.

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

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

What are you looking at? she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.

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.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

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.

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?

Underwear. It's like a god damned leash. It also constantly reminds me of how funny I look naked.

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

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

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

♥I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart.♥.

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.

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.'

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there.

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

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

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.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

And I could write it better than you ever felt it.

We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

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.

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

I'll be your number one with a bullet.

Emo is over, you can all go home now.

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.

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead.

I'm gay above the waist.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.

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 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.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 don't have an issue finding guys attractive.

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.

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

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.