Gerard Way Quotes

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Gerard Way

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 9, 1977

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.

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It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

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

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

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

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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.

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Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

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My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

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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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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

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To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

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

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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.

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

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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 day, which is really fun.

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

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'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

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

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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.

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