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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. "
Gerard Way
Marriage
Thought
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" 'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. "
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" '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 that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems. "
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" I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things. "
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" My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. "
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" Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend! "
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Best
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" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "
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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
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" 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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" 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 in the world. "
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Gender
People
" Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. "
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Me
Up
" Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. "
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Hate
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" I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. "
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High
Bullied
School
" When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' "
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Scene
Like
Watching
" 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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Nothing
Fighting
" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "
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You
Art
Control
" 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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People
Play
Boring
" 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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Politics
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Time
" Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. "
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You
Suicide
Love
" All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. "
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Story
Telling
Incredible
" 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. "
Gerard Way
Truth
Artist
Mission
" 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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Most
Me
Focus
" You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. "
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Old
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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 parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch. "
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Art
Perfect
Parents
" The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. "
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High School
School
People
" I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. "
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Night
Creature
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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
Mask
Superhero
" I love Alfonso Cuaron. "
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I Love
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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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Music
Think
Friend