Pete Wentz Experiences Writer's Block After Son's Birth

Tue, 10 November 2009 03:47:44 ET

'For the first six months after Bronx was born, I couldn't write at all,' the Fall Out Boy's bassist admits on how fatherhood affects his songwriting.

Being a first time father apparently brings an effect to Pete Wentz in term of him writing songs. Speaking to Music Radar recently, the bassist of Fall Out Boy confessed that he was unable to write anything for six months after his son from wife Ashlee Simpson, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, was born.

"For the first six months after Bronx was born, I couldn't write at all," he opened up on his writer's block, "and then all of a sudden I started writing again." The 30-year-old rocker went on to say how having his own child affected his point of view, saying "I think it made me look at the world in a different way."

"We have a very selfish culture, and we all embrace it, and that's what 'I Don't Care' was supposed to be about, and what 'America's Suitehearts' was supposed to be about," he continued on, explaining the tracks he wrote for the band's fifth studio album. "I hate explaining lyrics because it feel like 'Whatever' but 'I Don't Care' was about looking at a picture of yourself in the mirror, like the ultimate form of narcissism."

After announcing in May of 2008 that they are expecting their first child, Pete Wentz and his wife Ashlee Simpson welcomed Bronx Mowgli Wentz on November 20 the same year. "Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!" a spokesperson said in announcing the birth of the couple's son.

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