Gerard Way Quotes

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.

It's really intense to write and make a movie and produce it and have it come out in the world. It's a very vulnerable thing.

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that's how I write.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.