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I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

Frank Iero

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Frank Iero
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: October 31
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Belleville
New Jersey
Frank Anthony Iero
Jr.
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Songs
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Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
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Love what you do and who you truly are. Be willing to die for it. If you are true to yourself, you can never go wrong
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It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.
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I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.
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I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
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If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.
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Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.
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Where my heart lies is in the real-life, but at the same time part of it lies in this creative realm where I need to go in and put out that fire, scratch that itch, in order to be all rounded.
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You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something.
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The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.
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Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.
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I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.
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People never cease to amaze us.
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I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else.
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My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
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About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.
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I like taking my time and seeing the things around me and appreciating the now. I started to realize that the things that helped me do that were these things that brought me love, brought me joy. And if we're all just falling towards an eventual end, falling towards the ground, then these things are parachutes.
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There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that feels weird to me. I don't mean this in a bad way at all but it just feels fake.. I guess in my heart of hearts, whether the person has a good voice or not I want [the songs] to come from them. I don't know why.
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My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.
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I think that's really the beauty of life, like, we're this collection of moments, this collection of experiences that we've had, or little tics that we've stolen from other people, it's like we're this amalgamation of all of that.
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