"It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function"

"You have to destroy something to make it beautiful."

"All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you."

"In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world."

"Tears are words the heart can't express"

"NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"

"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."

"Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it."

"As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee."

"Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive."

"So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!"

"It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you."

"The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide."

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person."

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching"

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."

"To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop."

"It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band."

"Alan Moore is a prophetic writer."

"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."

"I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked."

"I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me."

"'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction."

"There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it."

"My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me."

"The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial."

"My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch."

"I love Alfonso Cuaron."

"Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up."

"I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building."

"'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album."

"Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name."

"I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here."

"My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die."

"Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer."

"What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun."

"As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark."

"I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year."

"All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story."

"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."

"Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably."

"You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday."

"I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then."

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

"When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'"

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

"There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas."

"To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life."

"A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup."

"I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored."