Gerard Way

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.

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

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.

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

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

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.

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

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.

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.

I love Alfonso Cuaron.

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.

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

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

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

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

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.

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.