Gerard Way quotes:

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

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

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.

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

You should love yourself.

I love Alfonso Cuaron.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue, like, it really strips people of who they are. Like, all your quirks and all your problems, even your depressions and your failures, that's what makes you, you. And there's a lot of drugs out there that will take that away from you.

If something was bugging you, you talk about it. But that's the cool thing: we [My Chemical Romance] don't bug each other. We just have deep discussions about art and music like friends. And we disagree about stuff but the disagreements are so healthy and intelligently thought out. We're very respectful of each other's opinions, especially about music.

I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better.

Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man, I was exhausted. But she is 17 months now. Shes running, shes been running for a long time. Shes inspired me a great deal for the record. She even goes Wow Daddy! when I play to her.

No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one.

None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness.

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!

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

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!

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.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

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 just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

When you go, would you ever turn to say, "I don't love you like I did yesterday.

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.

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

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.

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.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Shut up and let me see your jazz hands

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band- it is an idea.

It is not a band. It is an idea.

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!

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.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

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

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

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

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

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!

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?

I'm not drunk, just a little stoned.

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.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Tears are words the heart can't express

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.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful~?

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

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!

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.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

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.

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

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random.

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

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.

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!

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

Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you..

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.

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

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.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

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

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.

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

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.

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

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

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!?

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade

Can I be your only hope? Because your the only hope for me.

Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.

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.

Drawing and Drinking Coffe

Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.