Authorized Green Ninja
"We do not write because we want to, we write because we have to." "Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have enough fortitude and they probably wouldn't succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing." "The worst thing that being an artist (writer/painter/musician) could do to you, would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly." "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." "Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching." "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." "The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." "A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God." "Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter." "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” "If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better." Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling. The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid. There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams The road to success is always under construction. When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car. If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film. After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles." Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery. Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz What you call dog with no legs? "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together." A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected! Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman "Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway." - Joey Adams Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. All generalizations are false, including this one. All right, then, I'll go to hell. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. So many people treat you like you’re a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. –Gerard Way If for one minute you think you’re better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. –Gerard Way Cameraman: So, did you read Ellen DeGeneres's new book? Frank: Yeah. Cameraman: How was it? Frank: It made me a lesbian. –Frank Iero of course. Frank: Has goldfinger ever had a flock of mooses advancing on him? It's a terrifying sight. I'm gonna buy whatever shower curtain I want. - Gerard Way Interviewer: How do you feel about turning thirty this year? Gerard: I'm actually excited about it. I'll tell you why. I always see getting older as like learning. Thirty's not old... Thirty's like when you're twenty. Frank: Yeah. For trees. Gerard: ...for trees. Gerard: I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay...it's popular. You know what I mean? Frank: Popsicle is the new black. Gerard: What did I say? Oh yeah. Screaming is the new gay, everybody's doing it. Frank: I wish it were Popsicle. Gerard: Popsicles? Frank: Popsicles should be the new black and then everyone would have one. Mikey: I like Popsicles... Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f*ckin' princess! -Gerard The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell. -Gerard The world is less violent when people are using hula-hoops. -Mikey Way ''I was terrified of the dark, and she[his mom] had this porcelain doll collection that was really fucking creepy. I tried to get her to lock them up in a cupboard, but she never would.'' –Mikey Way ''the teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.'' –Mikey Way “I would date Gerard” - Frankie Iero "I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil." -Ray Toro. In an interview, the interviewer asks, "Cat or dog?" Gerard: Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. Like I love you all. Gerard - I want everyone raise your hands. Wave them back and forth. Now say ‘I suck at SkeeBall!” Interviewer: “So, do you guys have any surprises for the fans?” Gerard — “NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!” "Be yourself, don't take ayone's shit, and never let them take you alive" -Gerard Mikey: People have asked me to autograph asthma inhalers. I'm not actually asthmatic, but I'll sign 'em. You bring 'em and I'll sign 'em. "We were birth control." - Ray on his and Gerard's high school years Reporter: First kiss. With who and where? When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become." In my line of work, I have a lot of experience dealing with expectation and failure and success. I also really relate to carrying a weight around, to have this weight around that you didn’t really ask for. I found that to be the most interesting thing, to deal with characters that are carrying a weight, expected to save the world. Nobody ever asked [the Umbrella Academy] characters if they wanted to do it. 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. But these characters don’t really have a sense of duty like Superman. They were really forced into something. — Gerard Way "Are You On Our Side And You Want To Be Diffrent Or Are You On That Side And You Want To Throw A Football At My Head?" - Gerard Way This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well." --Mikey Way "Popsicles should be the new black, that way everyone would have one!"--Frank Iero "That's what happens when you're all borderline psychotic and therein lies the beauty of this band - our duality. There's a duality to each band member too. There's a desire to have this constant conflict. If we write a write a song and it turns out really poppy, we have to make the lyrics really fucked up. There's psychosis to everything we do for sure. One day we're probably gonna write this number one pop tune that will be about a massacre!" --Gerard Way "It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years." "I would date Gerard." 'asshole. i was such an asshole! uhhh delinquent. i was told i was too intelligent for my own good but i don't know about that. i didn't like authority and this was at ten!'-Frank Iero "I wanna go to bed now!" Frank Iero Frank: "Has Goldfinger ever seen any mooses?" Which of your band mates is most likely to accidentally stick a fork in a toaster? "I dont 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. As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. I always knew I was destined for greatness. I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. |
