Gerard Way

“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.”

“Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.”

“My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would...”

“Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.”

“There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.”

“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. A...”

“Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!”

“I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milk...”

“I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.”

“I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'A...”

“I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.”

“As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.”

“'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 tha...”

“My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.”

“I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore...”

“The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.”

“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...”

“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 was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.”

“All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.”