My Chemical Freak: My Chemical Romance All The Time

Gerard Way Complex Magazine Interview

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Never Let Them Know It’s Your First Time
Even if it’s literally your first time performing, you never tell your audience. It’s the same with the comic. I’ve been writing comics since I was about 14 years old, but you still don’t want to appear to be a novice. If you believe it, then everybody else will.

Everthing Will Look Better in Your Autobiography
That’s adapted from my literary hero Grant Morrison. I was a little nervous about doing the comic, and that’s one of the things Grant told me. If it’s a huge success or a huge failure, it’s so crazy that it’s still going to look good later on.

Aim For the Sun
Creatively, you have to try and destroy whatever you’re creating. That goes for making an album, the comic, anything. If something sounds ridiculous, then it’s probably a good idea.

Communication is Not the Same As Selling Out
Selling out is going against your beliefs to make something successful. Communication is the difference between a good artist and a bad artist. It’s like not understanding a piece of art: It’s not because you don’t get it; it’s because there’s nothing there.

If You Have Less Than Three Friends in High School, You’re in Good Shape
You never want to lose being an outsider. It keeps you honest. I was at an event recently and somebody actually thought I was a waiter. It was awesome.

Credit Isil for the info.

Credit LonelyDays17 for the pic scan and interview.

3 comments ↓

Kira
February 12th, 2009
5:03 pm

Sweet! I only have one real friend and I love being an outsider.

alyssa
February 12th, 2009
5:40 pm

THIS IS POSSIBLY THE BEST SHORT INTERVIEW EVER .. ahhh i have less then three actual friends in school .. ok good i thought i was a queer .. glad to know that its ok haha

and i very much agree with what he said about selling out .. its definately a term that many people misinterpret .. and gerard gave an amazing def of it

MARA KALLY
February 13th, 2009
9:41 am

NOSSA TORÇO MUITO PELO MCR ESTOU LOUCA PRA OUVIR O NOVO CD DELES EU OS AMOOOO

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