Top 150 Gerard Way Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Gerard Way

102. “Sing, that’s the most powerful weapon you have.”

— Gerard Way

103. “All your quirks and all your problems – even your depressions and your failures – that’s what makes you you.”

— Gerard Way

104. “When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.”

— Gerard Way

105. “Who wouldn’t want to catch a guy in a bear suit?”

— Gerard Way

106. “I’d rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.”

— Gerard Way

107. “It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?”

— Gerard Way

108. “Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn’t exist.”

— Gerard Way

109. “If you don’t go to highschool you will definately go to jail.”

— Gerard Way

110. “Keep your bad vibes out of my cornflakes.”

— Gerard Way

111. “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.”

— Gerard Way

112. “There’s not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.”

— Gerard Way

113. “Fear... Such a prison. Such a poison.”

— Gerard Way

114. “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.”

— Gerard Way

115. “I saw so many kids who were bullied. I always wanted to stand up for them, but I couldn’t – I was a coward. So when I got old enough, I said I’m not going to be a coward anymore.”

— Gerard Way

116. “Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t.”

— Gerard Way

117. “I’d rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory.”

— Gerard Way

118. “It’d be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.”

— Gerard Way

119. “I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference.”

— Gerard Way

120. “The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.”

— Gerard Way

121. “Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.”

— Gerard Way

122. “Look alive sunshine, the future is bulletproof, the aftermath is secondary; it’s time to do it now and do it loud; Killjoys, make some noise!”

— Gerard Way

123. “I’ve been eating speed for the last three day and everytime I close my eyes I see centipedes.”

— Gerard Way

124. “You only hear the music when your heart begins to break.”

— Gerard Way

125. “The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.”

— Gerard Way

126. “Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.”

— Gerard Way

127. “It’s like the drag fairy coming and saying ‘What would you like to do?’ Um, yeah karate.”

— Gerard Way

128. “I just wanna kind of give the world something special.”

— Gerard Way

129. “Get up, get out, and be social. – from his song “Don’t try.”

— Gerard Way

130. “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.”

— Gerard Way

131. “The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it’s a waste of time.”

— Gerard Way

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

— Gerard Way

133. “We have to do it, so there’s no point in bitching.”

— Gerard Way

134. “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.”

— Gerard Way

135. “If you chase the art, you really can’t fail because you’ll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that’s not about making angry decisions, either, it’s about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.”

— Gerard Way

136. “When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it’s very uncomfortable – it’s not like watching ‘Rambo.’”

— Gerard Way

137. “I had no direction. I thought, ‘I need to make a difference in my life,’ and music was my answer.”

— Gerard Way

138. “My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don’t know why I picked that name, it’s kinda of random.”

— Gerard Way

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

— Gerard Way

140. “So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?”

— Gerard Way

141. “I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn’t talk obviously... you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute... HA! I looked hot as a chick!”

— Gerard Way

142. “Most times with vanity projects, publishers don’t believe in the work; they just believe in the name.”

— Gerard Way

143. “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.”

— Gerard Way

144. “My music is – I don’t want to say my main focus, but it’s what comes most naturally to me.”

— Gerard Way

145. “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. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don’t know why I picked that name; it’s kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favourite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She’s really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It’s pretty huge.”

— Gerard Way

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

— Gerard Way

147. “You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.”

— Gerard Way

148. “All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.”

— Gerard Way

149. “I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There’s a need for that as much as there’s a need for a scene.”

— Gerard Way

150. “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