Just call him Fall Out Man.

Getting hitched, having a kid and staring down the big three-oh have apparently convinced Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz it’s time to do a little growing up.

“I said to myself, ‘You’re going to be 30 years old this year. And you can either be the world’s oldest teenager or you can be the world’s youngest adult.’ “

Given that pictures of Wentz supposedly partying with strippers (and without wife Ashlee Simpson) in Vegas surfaced on the Internet, keeping his nose clean may be easier said than done — though at least he was clothed in these shots, unlike the pictures of his, er, little Pete that circulated a few years ago.

And even if the tabloid-magnet can keep his mug (and crotch) out of the paparazzi’s viewfinders, he hardly seems the picture of maturity and calm. Speaking backstage from a West Coast stop on FOB’s multi-band Believers Never Die Part Deux Tour (which hits Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum tonight) — Wentz, singer-guitarist Patrick Stump, drummer Andy Hurley and guitarist Joe Trohman are still touring heavily in support of their 2008 album Folie a Deux — the personable Pete comes off like an excitable boy. He laughs easily, chatters a mile a minute, flits from topic to topic, and he’s easily distracted by their bus driver’s remote-controlled helicopter.

Q: You’ve just started the American leg of the tour. Are you doing anything differently?

A: Yeah, it’s a totally different show here. In Europe, we were using a lot of pyro. But here, we want to keep the ticket price low, so we came up with a new show. It’s just as big; it’s just done in a different way.

Q: How so?

A: Well, if you see Michael Jackson in an interview, he refuses to call the Moonwalk a dance move. He calls it an illusion. That’s what I’ve always found interesting about entertainment — those sleights of hand or moments when you think one thing is going to happen and another thing happens. That’s what this show is kind of designed to do. There definitely could be spoiler alerts on this show. There are a couple of things you wouldn’t expect unless you’ve gone to another show or read about it on the Internet.

Q: At the first show, you came out in suits with black-eye makeup and had cops in riot gear onstage. Is that what you’re talking about? Are you doing that every night?

A: Yeah, that’s totally part of it.

Q: So what’s it like playing in a suit?

A: Actually, it’s more like playing a character than just playing in a suit. And people don’t understand it until the character is gone. But it’s a pretty interactive show.

Q: You guys are incredibly interactive with your fans. You all have blogs and Twitter feeds and you answer questions on your website — you alone have 100,000 people following you on Twitter.

A: It’s a bizarre world. Twitter, to me, is the highest form of narcissism on the Internet. Like, ‘I’m going to get a latte.’ Why should anybody care? But at the same time, it’s cool. You get to interact with people and show them something inside your life — but you choose how wide you open the door.

Q: You must spend hours every day interacting with your fans.

A: Yeah. I don’t know why that is. I’m not sure if that’s sado-masochism, or boredom, or a true interest in what people are doing.

Q: Who would be a dream opening act for you?

A: Actually, we’d like to go out and support a band right now. It would be great to open for Green Day or Kanye West. That would be really cool — to go out and play a shorter set and have to win the audience over. That would be fun to do again. Most of the time now it’s like preaching to the choir. It’s fun to do too, but I remember the old days when we had to work really hard to win people over.

Q: Are you looking forward to turning 30?

A: I haven’t had a freak-out about it. I remember when I was 16 or 17 and I thought 23 was really old! Passing 27 was good. But 28, 29 — it all feels like 30 to me. I don’t think about it. But I think that eventually you become like Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler — your body is designed to not keep up. It’s so weird — there are things I found so much easier to do 10 years ago. At some point, I guess you have to hang it up. Or maybe you don’t — look at Keith Richards. It’s gonna be him and the cockroaches.

Q: You’ve got so many things on the go aside from the band: You’ve got your own label, a film production company, a club, an art gallery, acting. How do you juggle it all?

A: It’s like the Reagan administration; you surround yourself with really smart people and then you look a lot smarter than you really are.

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