Quotes by Pete Wentz

“If you arent just a little bit depressed, then you arent paying very much attention to whats going on in the world.”

“When youre playing hard-core music and youre 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.”

“Definitely. If I wasnt ordinary, this wouldnt feel really strange to me. It would feel very deserved and feel like vindication whereas being ordinary, thinking that Im probably a pretty normal, ordinary person, I feel like we got put in a fish tank, kind of by accident.”

“Thats what were doing.”

“OK, I can say some more about the video. I got a new analogy for you about it. Its like R. Kellys Trapped in the Closet, meets Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit, ... But with the prologue and epilogue still taking place on the Internet. And Im being completely serious. Wrap your mind around 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.”

“I dont think were going to play any of them yet -- we have a hard enough time playing for an hour and 15 minutes -- were dying after that,”

“[But as] I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt ... they wake up with Pete Wentz from Illinois.”

“It was a white A-Team van, and because it had no windows, it was hot as crap. It had a big flower spray-painted on the side. The brakes went out on it when we were driving down this alley, and I go to our guitar tech — there was a fence and there was this other van — so I go, Fence or van? Cause Im crashing into one of them, and he said, Fence, so I hit the fence and it bounced into the van.”

“Why are you making cupcakes when youre just gonna poop them out?”

“I feel like weve figured out how to write Fall Out Boy music, but I dont really feel like weve written the definitive Fall Out Boy song yet, where Im like, Wow, that is Fall Out Boy. So I guess it is continually evolving. But at the same time, its 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.”

“Theyre way different -- the songs are way more soulful. They open up Patricks voice a lot more. On the last record, the lyrics were about This is where were going to be a year from now, and this is what youre 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.”

“Its like a bunch of hard-core kids who decided they were going to write pop music.”

“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.”

“Sometimes, Ill be walking down the street, and people will be like, Youre the guy from the antlers video! And you cant 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, its in a vacuum.”

“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, were completely happy to go out and blaze a path. If people are following us down it, thats cool - otherwise, it will be fun for us to go out and hang by ourselves.”

“Yeah, [were] definitely tired,”

“The past five months have been really crazy for us, ... Its kind of cool because were hidden on a bus in, like, Omaha, Nebraska, or wherever, so weve never actually seen our video on MTV. So its kind of bizarre to think that it gets played on MTV and is on TRL all the time.”

“Its something weve always wanted to do as a band, just a quick jaunt through VFW halls and venues like that. Wed announce the show the night before or maybe play under some secret names. And we thought it would be cool because we dont feel like any band has gotten to a certain size and still gone on a VFW hall tour. So wed like to play a couple of dates on the East Coast. Watch out for it.”

“I dont think there is any beef between us. Their drummer is really nice.”