Quotes from Gerard Way

Just keep fighting. Because actually isn't that bad. I mean, we started this band thinking that the world is just extremely ugly but I think now we realize it's more beautiful than we thought.

So many people treat you like you're a kid that you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

Sooner or later your life is going to flash before your eyes; make sure it's worth watching.

The world is gonna try and clean you up; what you gonna do about it? They're gonna try to make you pretty, what the fuck you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, 'I WANNA STAY UGLY.'

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.

This shit is easy peasy pumpkin peasey...Pumpkin pie, motherfucker.

You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any 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 motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you!

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

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 Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

You can do amazing things when you believe.

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't.

It doesnt matter if youre self-conscious, if you think youre ugly, if you think youre fat. Youre all beautiful.

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

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

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