Survival

My life was awful. When I was a kid, I was fat, pretty ugly and had awful hair. I used to get teased every fucking day. Slammed up against lockers, punched in the face - you name it. Hell, I had to go to prom with one of my female friends because I couldn't even get a proper date. I cant even look back at those photos because I look so bad. I transfered schools, but the teasing just got worse. After a, let's say, "incident" I had with the school play, the bullying just got worse. But I made it through high school, only to find out that real life was pretty much the same. I just stayed in my dark room all day. I didn't talk to anyone, I didn't go outside. I just stayed inside and drew. I'd draw vampires, mummies, hereoes, villians. Anything to help me escape all the bad in the world. I went to art school and didn't really belong. All I could draw was comic book characters. I tried to put my only good talent to use, by drawing a cartoon and pitching it - only to have it turned down. Life to me was just pointless. I started drinking, doing drugs and just generally wasting my life drawing. Then one day, I saw bodies falling from the sky. I witnessed people dying. And that's when I decided to turn my life around. I called up anyone I knew who had an instrument and we formed a band. Being on tour for the first few years was bad. All we'd do was get drunk and do drugs, but I loved it. Because I was doing something I loved with people I loved. And a few years ago I met the most perfect woman ever. It's like we share a wavelink or something. She just knows me, without even knowing me if you understand. And now, 2011. I have a beautiful baby girl, a caring wife and I get to perform for all my adoring fans every day. I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better. I am Gerard Way, and I survived.

Peace

I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

JL

You’ve got one life; live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he’s lousy, and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to; it’s the cheapest thing you’ll ever do.

— Jared Leto

Start Living

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

Hurricane

This isn’t a video about “sex”. What is going on here is domination and submission. The deeper message is that you have control over everything, including how much other people can hurt you. If you look there is always a “key” for what seems to be the unescapeable. At the same time they are asking you to look at the contradictions of society, “would you kill to save a life?”

This is meant to take you to the deep dark place inside and help you shed light on what lives there.

Desabafo

Só podes afastar uma rapariga até certo ponto. Assim que o ultrapassas ela sai da tua vida por ela mesma. Por isso tem cuidado e pensa bem se é isso que realmente queres, porque assim que ela sai ela nunca mais voltará para ti. E não vai haver nada que possas fazer ou dizer para a teres de volta.

Porque no fim... Cada um tem o que merece. Tal como disseste.

Raparigas

Uma rapariga é especial.

Se a elogias, ela não acredita. Mas se não a elogias não serves para nada.

Se ela fala, ela quer que tu a oiças. Se ela ouve, ela quer que tu fales.

Se a beijas, não és um cavalheiro. Mas se não a beijas nem sequer homem és.

Se concordas sempre com ela, és um banana. Se não concordas, não és compreensivo.

Tão simples e ao mesmo tempo tão complicadas. Isto é uma rapariga. Uma criatura complicada mas que pode, sem sombra de dúvida, fazer com que um rapaz se sinta completo.