Gerard Way Quotes
I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
Quotes to Explore
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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A true athlete is someone who doesn't just stop training when they stop competing. It's a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
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Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.
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I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
