I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record. Frank Iero More Quotes by Frank Iero More Quotes From Frank Iero My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches. Frank Iero cake addiction chocolate If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it. Frank Iero halloween couple kids Every experience that you have is important. Frank Iero important I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are. Frank Iero shapes dumb attention If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn. Frank Iero ifs Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey. Frank Iero dirtiness jersey world I like taking my time and seeing the things around me and appreciating the now. Frank Iero my-time seeing appreciate I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying of hunger and war and they don't even notice that. I really don't understand that. That makes me so angry! Frank Iero dying war people People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right. Frank Iero names forever people You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something. Frank Iero selfish enjoy long To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited. Frank Iero song mean thinking No one is born with hate in their heart. Frank Iero born hate heart Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures. Frank Iero fake bridges song About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis. Frank Iero my-family six years I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else. Frank Iero like-you lasts art Everything I've ever dreamed of, everything in my wildest dreams, is coming true. Frank Iero wildest-dreams dream When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person. Frank Iero husband dark father Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show. Frank Iero festivals nerves shows I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad. Frank Iero hybridity mad band I think the fun thing about doing a project under your own name is that literally anything could be a follow up, it doesn't necessarily need to be a record, it could be film related, it could be book related, it could be anything. Frank Iero fun book thinking