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" Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. "
Gerard Way
First Love
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Love
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" It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band. "
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" Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you. "
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" I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share. "
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" What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. "
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" I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it. "
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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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" Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. "
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" There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. "
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" You should love yourself. "
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" The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. "
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" My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun. "
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" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "
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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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" I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here. "
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New
Identity
" 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. "
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World
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Crazy
" 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'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 Milkman. "
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Like
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" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "
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Sight
Abstract
Hidden
" To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life. "
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Direction
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Life
" My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. "
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Done
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" Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. "
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Ordinary
Heroes
" To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop. "
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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 wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. "
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High
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" 'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. "
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" 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 black - back then. "
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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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End
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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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" 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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Hope
" Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. "
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Mom
World
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