“There's absolutely a movement of a return to rock. Sometimes the good guys win. Kids are sick of the (expletive) pop and sick of being lied to. Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.”

“We’re really greedy about the electricity in our iPods. We hoard it. We’re like, ‘Yo, I’m only on half a f**k battery and I have a plane ride!”

“Yeah, I had a headache, really bad. I was in a gas station and there was a pot of coffee and I looked at it for about a minute and then my brother (motions at Gerard) got a coffee and he taunted me"

“Its hard to break out of Routines there, If I wasn't in this band, I'd probably be stuck doing some retail job. We lived near malls, and that's just what you would do. A lot of people I know ended up as, like, a manager at the Gap.”

“It's me and Gerard on the porch, talking about how Gerard's not cool!”

"I like Popsicles."

"Do I look like darth vader in this jacket? Cause I seriously think I do."

"When you hear a song, it shoots you back to a moment in time. I want this
album to do that for people."
On “The Black Parade”

"Every time I come back to Jersey, it’s ready to put its tentacles all over me and sucked me right back in. If I’m home for more than three weeks, I forget I’m in a band. I start to fill out applications for supermarkets."

"I had to pretend I was dying for 45 minutes."
On making the vide for “The Ghost of You”

Mikey: “Yo… yo, Bob’s screename is ‘bobs(bleeped)’! IM him!”
Bob: “Mikey Way’s… hey, yo- you want me to drop…Mikey Way’s phone number is…”
Mikey: “NOOOOOOO!”
During the making of “Welcome to the Black Parade”

"People made fun of us! Emo was kids in recreation shirts and tight blue jeans, and we came out wearing makeup; we played hardcore shows at VFW halls, and Gerard dressed like Ziggy-fucking-Stardust. Everybody wanted to hate us, but he always had in our mind that we wanted to transcend this. We wanted to change the world."

"It’s the mantra of the band. Kids would say they were going to kill themselves, then they heard our music. It’s great when you can impact someone like that. It’s our mission."

Which of your band mates is most likely to accidentally stick a fork in a toaster?
Frank: Mikey.
And who would yell ‘Hey! It’s still plugged in!’?
Mikey: That would be me.
Gerard: I would definitely be the one yelling. I think we’re all very protective of Mikey for things like sticking forks in toasters.
Frank: It’s funny because when we were recording, me and Mikey lived together and I would go to Gerard after and be like, ‘I can’t believe he did this today.’
Mikey: Yeah, I would leave the tea on overnight.
Frank: God forbid that kid ever lives alone!
Gerard: He had to promise he would watch him because he likes to do this thing where he’ll take a heater into the shower and plug it in…
Frank: Oh god!
Gerard: …and there’s water everywhere!
Mikey: I did that one time…
Gerard: What about the times with the radio?
Mikey: …and I was pretty warm when I did it though.