Gerard Way Quotes

One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

Ideas control the world.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjecture.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man

We just want to be a band and play good music.

My sound is inventive.

The idea is more important than the object.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Creation begins with vision.

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.