I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

- Gerard Way

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

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

- Gerard Way

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

- Gerard Way

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

- Gerard Way

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

- Gerard Way

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

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

- Gerard Way

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

- Gerard Way

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

- Gerard Way

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

- Gerard Way

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

- Gerard Way

My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.

- Gerard Way

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

- Gerard Way

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

- Gerard Way

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

- Gerard Way

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

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

- Gerard Way

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

- Gerard Way

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

- Gerard Way