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I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
If I announce something i'm making sure I'm doing it.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
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. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
It's an honor to play with Ray Toro.
Bob Bryar My Chemical Romance -
I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic to a fault, I internalize a lot, so it can be a bit hard sometimes, but I understand that that's what they need, and if I can do it, then I'll do it, but if I can't, then I'll try to take a knee.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
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 My Chemical Romance -
A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have them in specific and unexpected places.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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Somebody once told me I was skinny. That made me happy.
Bob Bryar My Chemical Romance -
Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
I'm kind of a feel player. I'll stretch out before a show a bit and do some playing, but that's about it. I'm not one of these 10-hour-a-day playing guys.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
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.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
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 -
I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance