Words matter. These are the best Gerard Way Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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’s something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
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.
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.
I’d rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
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.
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 wasn’t bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
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 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.
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
I love Alfonso Cuaron.
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
‘The Black Parade’ is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
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.
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 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.
You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.
I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.
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.
To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don’t believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
There’s not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
I want to be a vampire. They’re the coolest monsters.
