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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. -- Gerard Way
I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay ... it's popular. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I've gotta get out of the basement. I've gotta see the world. I've gotta make a difference -- Gerard Way
Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. -- Gerard Way
It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us. -- Gerard Way
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. -- Gerard Way
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. Like I love you all. -- Gerard Way
If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art. -- Gerard Way
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. -- Gerard Way
We've always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we'll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don't look to go round it. We just bust straight through. -- Gerard Way
I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective. -- Gerard Way
I just wanna kind of give the world something special. -- Gerard Way
Get up, get out, and be social. - from his song Don't try -- Gerard Way
I drink juice when I'm killin' cause it's f**king delicious! -- Gerard Way
It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy. -- Gerard Way
All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope. -- Gerard Way
Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness. -- Gerard Way
Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade -- Gerard Way
If you're ever in a dark place, don't resort to violence. Talk to someone; whether it be a therapist, teacher, parent, or just someone you can trust. We all have our dark places and it's important that you get help. -- Gerard Way
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching -- Gerard Way
The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly". -- Gerard Way
I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten. -- Gerard Way
I know something you don't ... and that is ... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute! -- Gerard Way
Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful? -- Gerard Way
The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally ... I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress. -- Gerard Way
I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song. -- Gerard Way
Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love. -- Gerard Way
It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality. -- Gerard Way
It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer. -- Gerard Way
I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
i dont love you... like i loved you... yesterday. -- Gerard Way
People don't know if i'm gay, straight or an alien from outer space.. its funny -- Gerard Way
We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step. -- Gerard Way
And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?"
"It's like being on vactaion. all of the time. -- Gerard Way
All that was left was the voice inside, and I could hear it clearly. It didn't have to yell- it whispered, and said to me briefly, plainly, and kindly- what it had to say. -- Gerard Way
I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people. -- Gerard Way
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I just rolled up the window, I couldn't think of anything else to do, phew I'm safe from the .375 gun now that I've rolled up the fucking window -- Gerard Way
How wrong we were to think that immortality meant never dying. -- Gerard Way
So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts? -- Gerard Way
Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off -- Gerard Way
Who wouldn't want to catch a guy in a bear suit? -- Gerard Way
The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did! -- Gerard Way
None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness. -- Gerard Way
Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara ... I'm a f****n' princess! -- Gerard Way
We're ganna we like to actually um, kidnap them in a van, and tie them up, and leave them somewhere dangerous ... that's the SUPRISE! -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka! -- Gerard Way
You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart. -- Gerard Way
Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
You can do amazing things when you believe. -- Gerard Way
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. -- Gerard Way
Hey girls, you're beautiful. Whether you're a size 32 or a size 18. As long as you're a good person. As long as you respect others and yourself. Don't listen to those fashion magazines. Hey girls, you're beautiful -- 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. -- Gerard Way
I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will fucking punch you in the face if you try. -- Gerard Way
Don't piss your life away with suicide ... it's a bullshit way out. -- Gerard Way
Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me ... Im not okay ... Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay -- Gerard Way
When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' -- Gerard Way
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. -- Gerard Way
Everyone back the fuck up! I am not that pretty! -- Gerard Way
You only hear the music when your heart begins to break. -- Gerard Way
Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I'm not drunk, just a little stoned. -- Gerard Way
Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly. -- Gerard Way
It's okay to be messed up, because there are five other dudes who are just as messed up as you. -- Gerard Way
As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee. -- Gerard Way
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. -- Gerard Way
All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you. -- Gerard Way
You should love yourself. -- Gerard Way
No matter what anyone says, dont take their F**king Bulls**t. Coz you're better then them, faster than them and god damn it, YOU'RE MUCH BETTER LOOKING!! -- Gerard Way
You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something ... and you need the right amount of love. -- Gerard Way
My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible. -- Gerard Way
I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way. -- Gerard Way
Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better. -- Gerard Way
No matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function -- Gerard Way
Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. -- Gerard Way
You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU! -- Gerard Way
You're gonna be going to rock shows for the rest of your natural life right ladies?. You're gonna see sleezy ass rockbands. They're gonna come up to you and ask you, to show your tits for a backstage pass. You know what I want you to fucking do? I want you to spit right in their FUCKING FACE. -- Gerard Way
The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell. -- Gerard Way
I'm not a phsyco I just like phsycotic things -- Gerard Way
Sing, that's the most powerful weapon you have. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
The future is bulletproof, the aftermath is secondary. -- Gerard Way
It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect!
(after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas) -- Gerard Way
Are you on our side ... and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!? -- Gerard Way
'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. -- Gerard Way
Shut up and let me see your jazz hands -- Gerard Way
We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching. -- Gerard Way
My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random. -- Gerard Way
It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know? -- Gerard Way
I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive! -- Gerard Way
Tears are words the heart can't express -- Gerard Way
I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead? -- Gerard Way
There's such a lack of sex in music. -- Gerard Way
I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time. -- Gerard Way
I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me. -- Gerard Way
Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean ... Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. -- Gerard Way
Stay beautiful, keep it ugly -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
Tears are words the heart cannot express -- Gerard Way
Drawing and Drinking Coffe -- Gerard Way
I'm not psycho...I just like psychotic things. -- Gerard Way
I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer. -- Gerard Way
The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing! -- Gerard Way
I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it -- Gerard Way
I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. -- Gerard Way
I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. -- Gerard Way
Can I be your only hope? Because your the only hope for me. -- Gerard Way
If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your tist for backstage passes, I want you to spit right in their fucking faces and yell 'FUCK YOU! -- Gerard Way
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave. -- Gerard Way
It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band. -- Gerard Way
My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me. -- Gerard Way
My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it. -- Gerard Way
One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny. -- Gerard Way
'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. -- Gerard Way
I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!! -- Gerard Way
I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide. -- Gerard Way
I am in the jungle and I am too fast for you. You have teeth and stripes and things that tear. But I am much too fast ... You want my flesh, but you don't know where the jungle is ... Only I know where the jungle is ... Only I know ...
I am a gazelle.
I am a gazelle and the jungle is my home. -- Gerard Way
I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot. -- Gerard Way
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time. -- Gerard Way
I'm the master of the wicket! -- Gerard Way
Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character. -- Gerard Way
I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year. -- Gerard Way
I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me. -- Gerard Way
Anniversaries are lies if we forget why the confetti flies. -- Gerard Way
Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk? -- Gerard Way
Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence! -- Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you! -- Gerard Way
To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life. -- Gerard Way
To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop. -- Gerard Way
Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't. -- Gerard Way
Life is but a dream for the dead. -- Gerard Way
I pity you all ... Most of you will die
scratch that
ALL of you. -- Gerard Way
I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home. -- Gerard Way
BABY, I'LL BE YOUR FRANKENSTEIN! -- Gerard Way
So people keep asking me what this badge is for ... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready! -- Gerard Way
If you're gonna buy me a present, don't spend more than twenty five bucks, you'll get a blowjob anyway. -- Gerard Way
Let's have a day in the life of Gerard.
Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be. -- Gerard Way
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. -- Gerard Way
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. -- Gerard Way
When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail. -- Gerard Way
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. -- Gerard Way
Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist. -- Gerard Way
And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know. -- Gerard Way
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me. -- Gerard Way
It's OK to be different. -- Gerard Way
It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate. -- Gerard Way
It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years. -- Gerard Way
I am who I am. There's no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn't concern me. Maybe that's the sexy part. -- Gerard Way
'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. -- Gerard Way
It's always a longer walk to the men's room, buckaroo. -- Gerard Way
When you are kissing a guy with a beard, it's different. -- Gerard Way
He thinks they're slimy? That's cause I'm singin' (Frank thinks Gerard's lips are slimy) -- Gerard Way
Those guys who want to have the Mohawk ... which, to me, is the new business casual. -- Gerard Way
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. -- Gerard Way
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. -- Gerard Way
You have to destroy something to make it beautiful. -- Gerard Way
I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans. -- Gerard Way
I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene. -- Gerard Way
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying -- Gerard Way
I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory -- Gerard Way
We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous ... SURPRISE!! -- Gerard Way
Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend! -- Gerard Way
It is not a band. It is an idea. -- Gerard Way
You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. -- Gerard Way
Art is the weapon -- Gerard Way
If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail. -- Gerard Way
Never forget how beautiful you are. -- Gerard Way
NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?! -- Gerard Way
I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it. -- Gerard Way
You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music. -- Gerard Way
GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE -- Gerard Way
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists -- Gerard Way
Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. -- Gerard Way
Real revenge is making something of yourself. -- Gerard Way
I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters. -- Gerard Way
I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something -- Gerard Way
When you go, would you ever turn to say, I don't love you like I did yesterday. -- Gerard Way
We're just as screwed up as you. -- Gerard Way
Beach Balls at festivals, are the work of the devil! -- Gerard Way
It's okay to be different -- Gerard Way
I saw so many kids who were bullied. I always wanted to stand up for them, but I couldn't - I was a coward. So when I got old enough, I said I'm not going to be a coward anymore. -- Gerard Way
I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me. -- Gerard Way
I love Alfonso Cuaron. -- Gerard Way
I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too. -- Gerard Way
