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Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.
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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 My Chemical Romance
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A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.
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I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
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I drink juice when I'm killin' cause it's f**king delicious!
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Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
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Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
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I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
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Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man, I was exhausted. But she is 17 months now. Shes running, shes been running for a long time. Shes inspired me a great deal for the record. She even goes Wow Daddy! when I play to her.
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I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.
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I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."
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I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.
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When I did The Umbrella Academy, I studied Gabriel Bá's art. I said, "Oh, this is what he likes to do here. Maybe I can push him to do a little more of this." You can play to those strengths. It's a different scenario with each artist.
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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 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.
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I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.
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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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Give me your reason to believe.
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Stay beautiful, keep it ugly
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Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.
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There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance