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" Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. "

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

" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "

" 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. "

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

" I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me. "

" I love Alfonso Cuaron. "

" 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. "

" When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. "

" 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. "

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

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