22 Quotes & Sayings By Pete Wentz

Pete Wentz is the lead singer, bassist, and guitarist of the rock band Fall Out Boy. He studied at New York University for three years before relocating to Los Angeles in 2001 where he began playing guitar for a series of bands while working as a massage therapist and personal trainer. After playing drums with "Dangerous Summer," the band featuring Jack Antonoff, he joined Fall Out Boy in 2002 and became their lead singer and primary songwriter. Wentz has become one of the most successful musicians in contemporary rock music, his solo work garnering two top ten singles on the Billboard 200 chart.

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life...
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Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead Pete Wentz
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm...
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Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people. Pete Wentz
The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive....
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The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy. Pete Wentz
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You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. Pete Wentz
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I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift. Pete Wentz
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He sang “I wish I weren’t me” over and over again just flat of the key of love until he forgot the words and could only hum along. Everyday was the same. The same stupid smile on the same stupid boy. Until the days blurred into a haze and the boy dropped into a depression. Not a cool dark room and cigarette depression like the songs he loved, but one that felt like he was being smothered by a safe, suburban, monotonous blanket. Everything felt like a headache to the boy. Every face, every stupid stuttered sentence all wrapped up into the biggest headache ever. So the boy took an aspirin. And another and another and then went to sleep, lullabyed by hopes he would never wake up to. Pete Wentz
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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
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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. Pete Wentz
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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. Pete Wentz
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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
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First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep. Pete Wentz
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The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them. Pete Wentz
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Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control. Pete Wentz
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He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss. Pete Wentz
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I'm gay above the waist. Pete Wentz
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These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself. Pete Wentz
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Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery Pete Wentz
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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. Pete Wentz
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He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers. Pete Wentz
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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
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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. Pete Wentz