Gerard Way Quotes
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You can do amazing things when you believe.
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Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
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NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
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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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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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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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I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.
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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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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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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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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
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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 was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.
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Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression. Now you take the weapon and run with it.
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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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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 world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".
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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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The future is bulletproof The aftermath is secondary.
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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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If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.