Gerard Way Quotes

It's always a longer walk to the men's room, buckaroo.

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

I have schedules that separate everything.

Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

There's Doom Patrol, which is the world's strangest superheroes, and they're making their return.

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

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.

I'm the master of the wicket!

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.

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

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

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

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.

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.

I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it

It's okay to love something a little too much, as long as it's real to you.