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.

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!

It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.

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

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.