Gerard Way Quotes (37 Quotes)


    I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.

    Actually, I might party a bit. I haven't partied in a long time, ... But we party a little differently than, like, Trick Daddy . We like high-speed Internet and strong coffee.

    When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I always wanted to be an artist, so I was this loner kid who just got drunk all the time. I only had one real friend. There was a girl I really liked, and she end

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

    It really doesn't follow a linear thing. It's more like you're getting little snippets of the story, which at the end should make up the whole part.


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

    It's a documentary that captures the rise and occasional stumblings of this band. It's really crazy, we had forgotten about a lot of the stuff that happens in the film. Like backstage stuff and concert footage. Basically, it tells the story of one really crazy year in this band's life.

    We might stop with 'Ghost.' We could easily put out another video we've talked about a whole bunch of possible songs to make videos for but we want to focus on doing some touring, and making a new record as soon as possible, ... So maybe we don't need to make another video. But I've always wanted to do a video for 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison,' so, really, who knows

    It just felt like we were the kids in the back of the class wearing black that nobody wanted to hang out with...I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You're still uncool.' And I was very happy with that revelation. And 'You're never gonna be cool so stop trying.' I had one of the best shows of my life that day.

    For me (being onstage) is me being everything I always wanted to be. It erases everything I don't like about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us.

    If you don't go to highschool you will definitely go to jail.

    So how was Christmas for you guys Did you all get lots of nice black tee shirts

    I said to myself, 'Man, I'm so tired of hearing songs about peoples' ex-girlfriends. It's really nauseating. And the whole me, me, me aspect of it was just like (overdone).

    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.

    I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA I looked hot as a chick

    There's definitely a trashy, x-rated vibe to our live set. It's mainly to put off homophobes, but also because as seriously as you take this, you can't take yourself that seriously. so it's like aggressive, softcore gay porn. there's a little man love, maybe some smooching, definitely some crotch grabbing. I definitely used to fck the monitors.

    This Song (Give Em Hell Kid) Is about getting Knocked Up. Has Anyone Here Ever Gotten Knocked Up

    A lot of people, think that they can solve their problems with antidepressents, and that I've noticed, being a bigger issue. it really strips people of who they are. All your quirks, all your problems, even your depressions and failures, that's what makes you, you.

    If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. 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.

    It looked like an X-Wing from 'Star Wars' and it came in just one color, which was 'metal' colored. It was awesome, though. I spent 700 on it, and I know people now who have rims that cost more than that. I had friends that all bought new cars and they were always breaking down on them. But mine lasted. Only thing was it couldn't really go up hills.

    Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on warped tour i got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

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

    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.

    When you are kissing a guy with a beard, it's different.

    I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill 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.

    You all have no idea how many (expletive) bugs there are on this stage.

    The transition from support act to headliner is an exciting change, as this will be the first time fans get to spend a proper night with us. Our set will be longer with fans hearing songs they've never seen live before and experience production, which we've never had. We can't wait

    Your going to come across a lot of shitty bands, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone 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 motherfr, stick up your middle finger, and scream FK YOU

    I went to Japan not thinking I was coming back...I got on that plane, and I packed real light. I was so addicted to self-destruction, I think more than the drugs, there's something very romantic about it. I didn't pack anything. I packed show clothes...I thought I was gonna die. I thought I wasn't coming back.

    How many ladies in the house tonight Fans scream Oh, sht... All you ladies scream Fans scream again Now that I have the ladies' attention, I want to tell you something. Some day, you're going to go to a concert and see a rock star. He may look like me, or him, or us, or any one, and he's going to tell you if you show him your tits he'll take you backstage. And I want you... to spit in that mother fer's face Fans scream Because you are better than that.

    Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

    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.

    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...

    It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

    When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. 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 and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.

    We've always wanted to give something back to our fans, and to play the kind of shows we know they want to see, ... And we really think this tour is exactly that.


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