Gerard Way
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.Collection: Religion
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.Collection: Hope
My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.Collection: Respect
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.Collection: Truth
I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.Collection: Cool
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.Collection: Music
I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.Collection: Cool
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.Collection: Marriage
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.Collection: Romantic
I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.
I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!
To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.
Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.
To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.
My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.
When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.
I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.
You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.
I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.
I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
You should love yourself.
I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.
You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.
I love Alfonso Cuaron.
'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.
I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.
A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.