Top 100 Pete Wentz Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m gay above the waist.”

— Pete Wentz

52. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

53. “Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.”

— Pete Wentz

54. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

55. “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.’”

— Pete Wentz

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

— Pete Wentz

57. “I’m not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don’t find anything attractive about it. I can’t believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit.”

— Pete Wentz

58. “Girls are like apples... the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren’t as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree...”

— Pete Wentz

59. “Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery.”

— Pete Wentz

60. “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

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

— Pete Wentz

62. “Let’s just make it through tonight, worry about the rest later.”

— Pete Wentz

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

— Pete Wentz

64. “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?”

— Pete Wentz

65. “When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that’s too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.”

— Pete Wentz

66. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

67. “It’s semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.”

— Pete Wentz

68. “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

69. “She pulls me toward her, tells me, “You’re sweet, you know that?” I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this time. Our hearts will see to it.”

— Pete Wentz

70. “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

71. “I’m not as well read as I was when I was younger – I just devoured books.”

— Pete Wentz

72. “What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?”

— Pete Wentz

73. “Underwear. It’s like a god damned leash. It also constantly reminds me of how funny I look naked.”

— Pete Wentz

74. “My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn’t even have to be out loud. It’s bizarre.”

— Pete Wentz

75. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

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

— Pete Wentz

77. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

78. “I’m the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, and I’m sorry my conscience called in sick again. I’ve got arrogance down to a science.”

— Pete Wentz

79. “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

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

— Pete Wentz

81. “The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I’m not watching.”

— Pete Wentz

82. “Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.”

— Pete Wentz

83. “It’s cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.”

— Pete Wentz

84. “My brain has always been my enemy, and I’ve spent much of the past decade warring against it, with therapy and razor blades and bad behavior, with precision-guided prescriptions that targeted specific regions.”

— Pete Wentz

85. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

86. “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

87. “The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.”

— Pete Wentz

88. “The person you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger.”

— Pete Wentz

89. “It’s bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I’m drinking a latte right now? It’s so indulgent.”

— Pete Wentz

90. “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

91. “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.”

— Pete Wentz

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

— Pete Wentz

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

— Pete Wentz

94. “But you couldn’t touch this kid right now, bullets would have dodged him.”

— Pete Wentz

95. “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

96. “I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I’ve even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I’m creepy. So creepy.”

— Pete Wentz

97. “Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.”

— Pete Wentz

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

— Pete Wentz

99. “I love these dudes, but I don’t know what they’re doing with all that facial hair these days. There’s a lot of peach fuzz going on. They called me up to go to a Kanye West concert, and I was like ‘hold on I’ll call Kanye.’ So I called him and they got into the show, and I called Kanye later and said, ‘Yo did you see my dudes from Panic! at the show?’ and he was like ‘Nah they mst not have been dressed like they were from the 1700’s′. But I back them. They have their own unique style, which is cool.”

— Pete Wentz

100. “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