Quotes by Gerard Way

About Gerard Way:

Gerard Arthur Way is an American musician and comic book writer who was the lead vocalist and co-founder of the American alternative-rock band My Chemical Romance from its formation in September 2001 until its split in March 2013. He is the executive producer of the band LostAlone's second album I'm a UFO in This City. Way also wrote the comic mini-series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and wrote the Eisner Award-winning comic book The Umbrella Academy. His debut solo album Hesitant Alien was released on September 30, 2014 via Warner Bros. Records.
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I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

Gerard Way

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.

Gerard Way

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

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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

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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.

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

Gerard Way

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...

Gerard Way

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.

Gerard Way

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

Gerard Way

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

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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.

Gerard Way

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameGerard Way
  • DescriptionAmerican musician and comic book writer
  • BornApril 9, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Author; Musician; Composer