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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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" 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 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all. "

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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. "

" 'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. "

" 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. "

" 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 never do. "

" The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. "

" The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down. "

" I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. "

" '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. "

" To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life. "

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

" 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. "

Gerard Way

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" The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. "

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

" Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. "

" I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. "

Gerard Way

Important

" You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things. "

" I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters. "

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

" 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. "

" To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop. "

" Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. "

" My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me. "

Gerard Way

Most

Focus

" There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. "