Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy): “It’s always funny to look back on the year and think about the things that you wish you’d done more of, or you wish you’d done differently, but other than that it’s been a pretty good year.
“M A N I A came out and we did shows, and then [Wentz’s daughter] Marvel arrived [on May 13] right before we went to Asia. She is very sweet, and having travelled with her and stuff was really the bow on top of the year. It’s definitely a juggling act to have kids and be doing the band, but I look out in the world and there’s single moms that do that in a more mystifying way, so I feel very grateful. At the same time, three kids is pretty crazy!
“Playing Wrigley Field [in FOB’s hometown of Chicago] was a really big moment. That seemed insurmountable, you know? We grew up sitting in the nosebleeds for baseball games there, so that one felt really special. Between that and Reading & Leeds, it felt like a nice end to the chapter of whatever M A N I A is. It gave it a graceful end, and everybody we’ve gone through it all with kind of participated in that show in some way, so it was a really cool moment. It’s hard to have a list of moments that you’re going to remember forever, but that’s always going to be one.”