Gerard Way Quotations

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

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.

I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

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.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

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.

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

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. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favourite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She's really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It's pretty huge.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

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.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

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.

The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.

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.

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

No one likes the new kid at school because he smells weird and has a penchant for leather and the homoerotic

Since we're in an arena, ... We'll do it arena-rock style!

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black tee shirts?

Have you seen my Kung fu lately? Cause it has gotten totally awsome!

I said to myself, 'Man, I'm so tired of hearing songs about peoples' ex-girlfriends. It's really nauseating. And the whole me, me, me aspect of it was just like (overdone).

Surrounding myself with fans makes me feel like I'm not going throgh it alone.

Just 'cuz you're bigger than me, just 'cuz you're smarter than me, just because you drive a better car than me, does not mean, no way no how, I'm sucking you off, for any amount of money.

I'm sick of seeing my face. But I am allowed to be sick of seeing my face, 'cuz it's MY f**kin face.

I went to Japan not thinking I was coming back...I got on that plane, and I packed real light. I was so addicted to self-destruction, I think more than the drugs, there's something very romantic about it. I didn't pack anything. I packed show clothes...I thought I was gonna die. I thought I wasn't coming back.

Yeah, man, I agree, ... At the beginning of the film, I look like Jabba the Hutt, and then by the end of the film, there are all these shots of us and we all look like skeletons.

You all have no idea how many (expletive) bugs there are on this stage.

Welcome to the new church! Can I get an 'Amen'?

When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I always wanted to be an artist, so I was this loner kid who just got drunk all the time. I only had one real friend. There was a girl I really liked, and she ended up taking really sleazy photographs with her boyfriend, and that really crushed me, I was just swimming in this pit of despair, jealousy and alcoholism.

There have been tours where we hit a different Wal-Mart almost every night.

We've always wanted to give something back to our fans, and to play the kind of shows we know they want to see, ... And we really think this tour is exactly that.

We're so excited about playing the new record that we just want to play the whole thing.

When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.

Be Yourself, Don't take anyone's s**t and never let them take you alive...

The transition from support act to headliner is an exciting change, as this will be the first time fans get to spend a proper night with us. Our set will be longer with fans hearing songs they've never seen live before and experience production, which we've never had. We can't wait!

This sh*t is easy peasy pumpkin peasy. Pumpkin pie, motherf**ker!

This Song (Give Em Hell Kid) Is about getting Knocked Up. Has Anyone Here Ever Gotten Knocked Up?

We like to kidnap them in a van, and leave them somewhere dangerous. SURPRISE!

Ray- What is a large group of moose? Mooses?Mikey- No way! It's Meesi.Gerard- F*ck Off! It's Meese.

Actually, I might party a bit. I haven't partied in a long time, ... But we party a little differently than, like, Trick Daddy. We like high-speed Internet and strong coffee.

A lot of people, think that they can solve their problems with antidepressents, and that I've noticed, being a bigger issue. it really strips people of who they are. All your quirks, all your problems, even your depressions and failures, that's what makes you, you.

Are You On Our Side And You Want To Be Diffrent Or Are You On That Side And You Want To Throw A Football At My Head?

Your going to come across a lot of shitty bands, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names because of what you look like, or because they don't accept you for who you are. I want you to look right at that motherf****r, stick up your middle finger, and scream F**K YOU!

I'm never able to forget the really bad stuff I went through!

If sh*tty ass rock dudes, in sh*tty ass rock bands, ask you to show your tits for backstages passes, I want you to spit in their f*ucking faces and scream F*CK YOU!

If you don't go to highschool you will definitely go to jail.

If you come to one of our shows then you're a little f**ked up. That's okay. We're just as f**ked up as you

For me (being onstage) is me being everything I always wanted to be. It erases everything I don't like about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us.

It just felt like we were the kids in the back of the class wearing black that nobody wanted to hang out with...I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You're still uncool.' And I was very happy with that revelation. And 'You're never gonna be cool so stop trying.' I had one of the best shows of my life that day.

It really doesn't follow a linear thing. It's more like you're getting little snippets of the story, which at the end should make up the whole part.

There's definitely a trashy, x-rated vibe to our live set. It's mainly to put off homophobes, but also because as seriously as you take this, you can't take yourself that seriously. so it's like aggressive, softcore gay porn. there's a little man love, maybe some smooching, definitely some crotch grabbing. I definitely used to f*ck the monitors.

We might stop with 'Ghost.' We could easily put out another video ù we've talked about a whole bunch of possible songs to make videos for ù but we want to focus on doing some touring, and making a new record as soon as possible, ... So maybe we don't need to make another video. But I've always wanted to do a video for 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison,' so, really, who knows?

We might stop with 'Ghost.' We could easily put out another video -- we've talked about a whole bunch of possible songs to make videos for -- but we want to focus on doing some touring, and making a new record as soon as possible, ... So maybe we don't need to make another video. But I've always wanted to do a video for 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison,' so, really, who knows?

It's a documentary that captures the rise and occasional stumblings of this band. It's really crazy, we had forgotten about a lot of the stuff that happens in the film. Like backstage stuff and concert footage. Basically, it tells the story of one really crazy year in this band's life.

It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'Whatwould you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.

If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. 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.

I dont 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.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

To all those whove tried to belong, and just didnt fit inyou are loved. To all those whove tried to stand out and be heardyoure admired. To all those whove tried to be themselves, only to be shut downyou are supported. To all those whove tried to kill themselves because lifes unfairyoure NOT alone. Love your friends, love your enemies, because in the end, theyll all be kissing your ass when you make it.

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.