Quotes from Pete Wentz

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

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

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 would never come out and say I was gay, because I'm not gay. And there's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

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

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

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.

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

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

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

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.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

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.

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

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.