Gerard Way Quotes
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I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
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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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The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.
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When you're touring and the minute you tell someone that you're from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.
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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.
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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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Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
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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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Real revenge is making something of yourself.
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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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There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
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Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.
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Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.
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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.
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We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.
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A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.
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The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell.
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I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.
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The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.
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If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.
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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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I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.
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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.
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The future is bulletproof The aftermath is secondary.