Wentz: 'Africa Trip Gave Me Focus'

A charity trip to Africa made Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz appreciate his life of luxury.

The rocker confesses he was completely wrapped up in his own problems, until he visited the poor in Uganda on a children's charity visit - and it put his life into perspective.

He says, "It made my problems seem very small. If I'm being chased by paparazzi or bitching about something on my blog online, that's such a small and trivial problem compared to the sort of thing that these people are having to go through."

"Before I went there I had been drained of any sense of real life. I wasn't living life like a normal person."

"Once I'd experienced what was going on there and while we were part of that, I feel like it gave me purpose and direction to my life again."