No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one.

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

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

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

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

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

I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.