Gerard Way

“Tears are words the heart can't express”

“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.”

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

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.”

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

“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.”

“I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.”

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

“Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.”

“Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.”

“Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!”

“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.”

“You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.”

“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.”