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" To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop. "
Gerard Way
Scariest
Sexiest
You
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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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" 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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" I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me. "
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" Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend! "
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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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" I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. "
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" The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. "
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" When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' "
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" Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. "
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" I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters. "
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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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" 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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" I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. "
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" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. "
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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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" 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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" 'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. "
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" 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. "
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" To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life. "
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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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