Pete Wentz Quotes

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.

I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

I share a lot of my life with everybody.

I always am astounded at how willing Steve was to share all about himself. And sometimes he got criticized for it. But he was so open and yet so private about some things.

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.