Quotes from Gerard Way

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

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

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

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 not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

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

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

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

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.

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.

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.

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

You should love yourself.

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'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.

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

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.