I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead? Gerard Way More Quotes by Gerard Way More Quotes From Gerard Way Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. Gerard Way girl stupid beautiful Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation. Gerard Way keys doe firsts My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it. Gerard Way important stuff world 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. Gerard Way romance order thinking I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way. Gerard Way drawing ideas thinking All your quirks and your problems, even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you. Gerard Way Be whoever you are extremely loud and be completely fearless when you do it. Gerard Way Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive. Gerard Way Just keep fighting. Because actually isn't that bad. I mean, we started this band thinking that the world is just extremely ugly but I think now we realize it's more beautiful than we thought. Gerard Way Sooner or later your life is going to flash before your eyes; make sure it’s worth watching. Gerard Way The world is gonna try and clean you up; what you gonna do about it? They’re gonna try to make you pretty, what the fuck you gonna do about it? You’re gonna say, ‘I WANNA STAY UGLY.’ Gerard Way Then one day, I saw bodies falling from the sky. I witnessed people dying. And that's when I decided to turn my life around[...] Being on tour for the first few years was bad. All we'd do is get drunk and do drugs, but I loved it. Because I was doing something I loved with people I loved[...] And now, 2011, I have a beautiful baby girl and a caring wife and I get to perform for all my adoring fans every day. I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better. I am Gerard Way and I survived. You will too. Gerard Way This shit is easy peasy pumpkin peasey...Pumpkin pie, motherfucker. Gerard Way You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any of those people call you names because of what you look like or because they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you! Gerard Way Anything can be art. Anthing can be self-expression. Now you take the weapon and run with it. Gerard Way Don't let anyone tell you you aren't good enough. You are good enough; You are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. Gerard Way Everybody gets depressed; it's totally normal. Gerard Way So many people treat you like you're a kid that you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. Gerard Way Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. Gerard Way Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. Gerard Way up me growing-up important