Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. You find yourself saying things like "I didn't know that part was so ugly." Or "I better get a professional opinion about that." You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day. . .facing every fear, every disgusting thing you hate about yourself. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform. . . you perform like your life depended on it----and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

- Gerard Way

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

- Gerard Way

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

- Gerard Way

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

- Gerard Way

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

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

- Gerard Way

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

- Gerard Way

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

- Gerard Way

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.

- Gerard Way

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

- Gerard Way