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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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Gerard Way
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 9
Comics Artist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Gerard Arthur Way
Short
Choose
Live
Life
People
Dislike
Dumb
Express
Fit

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Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.
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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.
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So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!
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We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!
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Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.
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NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
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There's such a lack of sex in music.
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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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I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.
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All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.
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All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.
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Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay
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It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function
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You should love yourself.
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I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.
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I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.
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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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When you go, would you ever turn to say, I don't love you like I did yesterday.
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I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.
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We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.
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