sofia22
Dec 30th, 2007, 05:20 PM
Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz is chalking up 2007 as an outstanding year for lots of reasons. He candidly tells us, "On a personal level, this year I've allowed myself to find happiness. In some bizarre way, I've always felt guilty about being happy before. But now, to me, it's a big deal, and I'm letting myself be OK with being happy -- happy in an honest, genuine way, not a medicated way, which is good."
Wentz's past emotional travails have been highly chronicled, including his 2005 hospitalization after an overdose of the anxiety medication Atavan and the subsequent Fall Out Boy song "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)." These days, he sounds quite happy in his relationship with girlfriend Ashlee Simpson. And he certainly seems happy in his professional life -- what with Fall Out Boy achieving No. 1 chart status with its fourth album, "Infinity on High," among his successes this year.
He's also grateful to have had opportunities to grow in new ways. "On a grander level than me, I guess my biggest achievement this year was going to Uganda and seeing the plight of people in a vastly different place than my own, getting a different perspective," says the 28-year-old talent, whose band has a philanthropic bent. As for what is ahead, "I'm really interested in acting," says Pete, who acted in high school and cameoed as himself in recent installments of TBS's two-minute microseries "lovebites." "I don't want to be 'the dude in the band' forever. I'm thinking of maybe doing dark, small roles in independent movies. I'm not thinking of getting a million dollars a picture on a big budget movie, just low-key things just for myself. I've never really had a chance to play a character outside myself or the heartthrob guy. I probably have a desire to be someone besides who I am, kind of. We'll see how that goes, but don't expect me to be trying to get an Oscar."
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272617927.shtml
:kiss: :music: :) :cool:
Wentz's past emotional travails have been highly chronicled, including his 2005 hospitalization after an overdose of the anxiety medication Atavan and the subsequent Fall Out Boy song "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)." These days, he sounds quite happy in his relationship with girlfriend Ashlee Simpson. And he certainly seems happy in his professional life -- what with Fall Out Boy achieving No. 1 chart status with its fourth album, "Infinity on High," among his successes this year.
He's also grateful to have had opportunities to grow in new ways. "On a grander level than me, I guess my biggest achievement this year was going to Uganda and seeing the plight of people in a vastly different place than my own, getting a different perspective," says the 28-year-old talent, whose band has a philanthropic bent. As for what is ahead, "I'm really interested in acting," says Pete, who acted in high school and cameoed as himself in recent installments of TBS's two-minute microseries "lovebites." "I don't want to be 'the dude in the band' forever. I'm thinking of maybe doing dark, small roles in independent movies. I'm not thinking of getting a million dollars a picture on a big budget movie, just low-key things just for myself. I've never really had a chance to play a character outside myself or the heartthrob guy. I probably have a desire to be someone besides who I am, kind of. We'll see how that goes, but don't expect me to be trying to get an Oscar."
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272617927.shtml
:kiss: :music: :) :cool: