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Born on April 9, 1977, Gerard Way is a renowned musician known for his unique musical style and profound lyrical content. He is the founding member and lead vocalist of the band My Chemical Romance, whose music blends elements of rock, punk, and post-punk. Way's work has gained global popularity.

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“I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.”

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“I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.”

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“I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.”

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“There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...”

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“No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one.”

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“I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.”

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“The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.”

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“When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.”

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“If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.”

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“I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.”

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“My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.”

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“Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you.”

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“Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.”

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“Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.”

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“Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.”

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Author:Gerard Way

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Born: April 9, 1977
Known for: Musician
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