Gerard Way Quotes

I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

I love Adele so much and it's honestly not because we're both big.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

R&B is my home. It's who I am. It's who I've been. It's the first genre I fell in love with. It's the reason why I've been able to do other genres of music.

I feel like everybody's life literally has a soundtrack because we love music so much, and there are so many songs that people love.

Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

I'm just so grateful to be a part of BABYMETAL because without this opportunity, I wouldn't have had a deeper connection to music!