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" 'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. "
Gerard Way
Big
Epic
Album
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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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High School
Me
" I love Alfonso Cuaron. "
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I Love
Love
" You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. "
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Yesterday
Old
Misfits
" 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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Wolf
" 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. "
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People
Kid
Hotel
" 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
" 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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Marriage
Thought
Negative
" 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. "
Gerard Way
Politics
Remember
Time
" I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. "
Gerard Way
Night
Creature
Dude
" 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. "
Gerard Way
Underdog
You
People
" 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. "
Gerard Way
My Life
Myself
Hope
" When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' "
Gerard Way
Scene
Like
Watching
" 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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Selfish
Gender
People
" My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. "
Gerard Way
Done
Romance
Chemical
" I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. "
Gerard Way
High
Bullied
School
" 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. "
Gerard Way
People
Best
Brain
" To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop. "
Gerard Way
Scariest
Sexiest
You
" Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. "
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First Love
Hate
Love
" All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. "
Gerard Way
Story
Telling
Incredible
" The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. "
Gerard Way
Obligation
Actions
Truth
" There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. "
Gerard Way
Something
Romantic
Life
" Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. "
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Important
Me
Up
" I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year. "
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Marathon
Watch
Love
" 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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You
Fun
Festivals
" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "
Gerard Way
You
Art
Control
" 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
" I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things. "
Gerard Way
Things
Psycho
Psychotic
" I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters. "
Gerard Way
Monsters
Coolest
Want
" 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. "
Gerard Way
Lose
New
Identity
" 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. "
Gerard Way
Amazing
Wife
Respect