If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Homophobia is gay.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

Popsicles should be the new black and then everyone would have one.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

I don't care about writing really.

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Dont use your brain to play it let your feelings guide your fingers.

History repeats itself first as tragedy second as farce.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

Of all ills that one endures hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.