Peter Wentz - People Quotes

3 Sourced Quotes

View all Peter Wentz Quotes

I have a bit of a consummate victim in my head. That's who I identify with throughout history. When I was 10 I would draw black eyes on myself because I thought it was cool. You're so into people who are tragic. You want to be that so badly. But you probably aren't really the tragic genius that you think you are.

Peter Wentz

Being ambiguously flamboyant really does help. I've had so many people come up to me and be like, 'I felt OK to come out of the closet after you said this.' When someone says that to me — it's not an event I've ever been through, so I don't know what to compare it to. I don't think I even understand how important that is to someone's life.

Peter Wentz

Our culture bombards us with this idea that you're not that, and if you are that, there's something wrong with you, and then we're going to call you that, and then it's an insult. There is a sense of self-empowerment or recapturing who you are by people calling you 'fag,' and being like, 'Yeah, I am a fag.' Even though you're not. What does somebody respond? That dude has nothing to say about that again.

Peter Wentz