18th
Patrick = Gorgeous Best Friend
This is an excerpt from an Associated Press article:
Wentz also wrote lyrics about issues he saw his bandmates struggling with. Each of the guys can call out their moments, even if they’re not willing to reveal them outright.
Stump, who was particularly touched by a rare ballad, perks up. “That says something about Pete Wentz. The Pete Wentz you read about isn’t empathetic enough to write a record from the perspectives of his best friends. This Pete Wentz did that. Where’s that story?”
“Don’t print that,” mumbles Wentz. “I don’t want to be empathetic.”
Stump doesn’t want to let it go. “I’m going to say something about Pete that’s never made it into a printed interview because it must not be that interesting, but it is the fucking truth,” the singer declares. “The thing about Pete is that people have always watched him and given him attention, and you have two options as far as how you are going to handle that. Either you are going to totally shut off, or you are going to occasionally say you’ll smile for [the cameras]. He does both. Before he was Pete Wentz, ‘Rock Star,’ people just paid attention to him.
“A lot of time I’m around this dude, he’s very shy,” he says, turning to address Wentz directly. “But I get the impression that you don’t really like attention that much, but you face it. So the one time you smile for the camera, people go ‘Oh, he’s a fucking ham.’ That’s one of the things that’s really frustrating.” He turns back to address the interviewer. “It’s not even something Pete has control over, the stuff that gets thrust on Pete, like the greatness or the shallowness of Pete Wentz. He’s neither, he’s just Pete. And I think that’s one of the huge things about the band. We don’t rule. We don’t suck. We’re just a band.”
