Gerard Way Quotes

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it.

I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

I'm working on a new creator-owned series for Vertigo called 'The Discipline.'

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.

I was in the top 10 rock n' roll artists - up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

It's an honor that people give a crap about us. We're in a rock band; we're not supposed to be treated with any respect.