Gerard Way Quotes

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just excited about the next challenge of pursuing this artist thing.

I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And nursing didn't feel quite right, and an old boyfriend gave me a 35-millimeter camera just to play with. So, I took a darkroom class.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

I started out doing the acting, and there was always an interest in music, and then the music just took off.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I love doing.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

I love making music and I've always been doing that, I just didn't make it commercial.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

I've been trying to sing for a long time. I didn't realize that's what I wanted to do until I was about seven or eight. I tap danced since I was three years old, and that's all I did.

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

We treated it as another acting job. Some of these other bands had been put together, and it was their dream come true to be in a band, and that wasn't really the case for us. It was the next part of what we were doing.

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping for an art gallery in Manhattan; I went to school for painting, so I always wanted to work around artwork, even though I wasn't really contributing anything to the scene.

I left school and didn't go to university to be in a band.

I was really into music, but I thought, 'Comics are great, I should get back into that.'