Gerard Way Quotes

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy.

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.

When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

I've always written down how I feel.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

No, I don't think songwriting is emotionally challenging - I feel like it's almost a way to sort through your emotions and put them out there.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.