Gerard Way Quotes & Sayings

People don't know if i'm gay, straight or an alien from outer space.. its funny — Gerard Way

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing! — Gerard Way

Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. — Gerard Way

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. — Gerard Way

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts? — Gerard Way

No matter what anyone says, dont take their F**king Bulls**t. Coz you're better then them, faster than them and god damn it, YOU'RE MUCH BETTER LOOKING!! — Gerard Way

We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step. — Gerard Way

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. — Gerard Way

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. — Gerard Way

Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. You find yourself saying things like "I didn't know that part was so ugly." Or "I better get a professional opinion about that." You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day ... facing every fear, every disgusting thing you hate about yourself. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform ... you perform like your life depended on it
and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world. — Gerard Way

Can I be your only hope? Because your the only hope for me. — Gerard Way

I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory — Gerard Way

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

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

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect!
(after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas) — Gerard Way

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead? — Gerard Way

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara ... I'm a f****n' princess! — Gerard Way

No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one. — Gerard Way

My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it. — Gerard Way

We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous ... SURPRISE!! — Gerard Way

Beach Balls at festivals, are the work of the devil! — Gerard Way

You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music. — Gerard Way

Hey girls, you're beautiful. Whether you're a size 32 or a size 18. As long as you're a good person. As long as you respect others and yourself. Don't listen to those fashion magazines. Hey girls, you're beautiful — Gerard Way

It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know? — Gerard Way

I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something — Gerard Way

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. — Gerard Way

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly. — Gerard Way

Life is but a dream for the dead. — Gerard Way

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching — Gerard Way

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

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know. — Gerard Way

When you go, would you ever turn to say, I don't love you like I did yesterday. — Gerard Way

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you. — Gerard Way

Craziest thing that ever happened to me was being attacked by a black bird. It pecked the shit out of my head. We were at this hotel called The Phoenix in San Francisco. We were leaving to go to a show the next morning and the bird just fuckin' attacked my head. And the next day Slipknot were there, they were coming in as we were leaving, and they got attacked by birds too — Gerard Way

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot. — Gerard Way

He thinks they're slimy? That's cause I'm singin' (Frank thinks Gerard's lips are slimy) — Gerard Way

It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function — 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. — Gerard Way

It's OK to be different. — Gerard Way

It's okay to be different — Gerard Way

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home. — Gerard Way

Let's have a day in the life of Gerard.
Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be. — Gerard Way

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.. — Gerard Way

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

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful? — Gerard Way

No matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith — Gerard Way

We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching. — Gerard Way

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade — Gerard Way

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. — Gerard Way

It is not a band. It is an idea. — Gerard Way

Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful. — Gerard Way

I am who I am. There's no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn't concern me. Maybe that's the sexy part. — Gerard Way

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. — Gerard Way

You can do amazing things when you believe. — Gerard Way

Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually happened once in Boston, it usually doesn't happen. We went over to England and it happened at almost every show. I don't really enjoy any kind of invasion of privacy like that I guess. Just the moment you're on stage it doesn't phase you or bother you too much though. Grabbin my package is obviously a total invasion of privacy I'm not into that at all. Grabbing my butt I guess if it were a guy I'd enjoy it. I mean, I guess it all depends on how he grabbed my butt too. — Gerard Way

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it. — Gerard Way

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! — Gerard Way

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

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

I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them. — Gerard Way

Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character. — Gerard Way

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. — Gerard Way

We've always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we'll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don't look to go round it. We just bust straight through. — Gerard Way

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene. — Gerard Way

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

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

Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
I! don't! care!
We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches on — Gerard Way

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you. — Gerard Way

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee. — Gerard Way

I dont 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

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying — Gerard Way

It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy. — Gerard Way

There's such a lack of sex in music. — Gerard Way

I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue, like, it really strips people of who they are. Like, all your quirks and all your problems, even your depressions and your failures, that's what makes you, you. And there's a lot of drugs out there that will take that away from you. — Gerard Way

Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it ... is kind of losing yourself in it. — Gerard Way

You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something ... and you need the right amount of love. — Gerard Way

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way

My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do. — Gerard Way

I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it. — Gerard Way

Get up, get out, and be social. - from his song Don't try — Gerard Way

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

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer. — Gerard Way

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

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk? — Gerard Way

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

I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too. — Gerard Way

Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. — Gerard Way

The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they're not alone, that they're actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live. — Gerard Way

Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way

Host: For those of you just tuning in, our guests tonight are the amazing Murder Magician, and his lovely minion, The Assistant ...
Assistant: Charmed, I'm sure
Host: Who recently killed The Rumor. And you were awarded the Oppenheimer prize for villainy at last week's annual summit for dastardly deeds
what are you going to do with all that money?
Murder Magician: Well, I'm so glad you asked that
because I spent all the money on this giant MURDERBOT, and I've been dying to show it off!
Assistant: It's true ... every penny.
Host: Wow! That's impressive! So what does it do?
Murder Magician: Well, Mr. Clark ... it murders people.
Laughter.
Murder Magician: I'm serious.
Assistant: He is. — Gerard Way

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

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU! — Gerard Way

I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten. — Gerard Way

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean ... Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. — Gerard Way

I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people. — Gerard Way

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. — Gerard Way

I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me. — Gerard Way

Don't piss your life away with suicide ... it's a bullshit way out. — Gerard Way

Your connection to other people keeps you human, and that connection, staying human - that's what you have against control. It's like if somebody is being controlled by their job, the connection is to their family. And if they stay connected to those people, the job will never really have control over them. — Gerard Way

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally ... I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress. — Gerard Way