Top 253 Quotes & Sayings by Gerard Way - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

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.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?

There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...

I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too.

I'm not drunk, just a little stoned.

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?

I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!

Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

Drawing and Drinking Coffe

I don't wanna be that kind of guy that just sits there and announces things.

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t.

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith

Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

I am in the jungle and I am too fast for you. You have teeth and stripes and things that tear. But I am much too fast… You want my flesh, but you don’t know where the jungle is… Only I know where the jungle is… Only I know… I am a gazelle. I am a gazelle and the jungle is my home.

I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously... you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute... HA! I looked hot as a chick!

We're just as screwed up as you.

Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great, interesting fanbase that's really smart and energetic and uh how could I steer them towards a medium that shaped who I was? You know, steer them toward comics. That was really the goal, to bring a lot of readers cuz they were reading a lot of comics but most of them hadn't been reading American comics, they'd be reading manga sitting on the floor of a Barnes and Noble.

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

When you are kissing a guy with a beard, it's different.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

We’ve always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we’ll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don’t look to go round it. We just bust straight through.

My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

The future is bulletproof The aftermath is secondary.

I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself.

There's such a lack of sex in music.

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.

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.

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually happened once in Boston, it usually doesn't happen. We went over to England and it happened at almost every show. I don't really enjoy any kind of invasion of privacy like that I guess. Grabbing my package is obviously a total invasion of privacy I'm not into that at all.

It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

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.

If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail.

It's okay to be messed up, because there are five other dudes who are just as messed up as you.

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.

It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.

Who wouldn't want to catch a guy in a bear suit?

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

I just wanna kind of give the world something special.