It is not a band. It is an idea.

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.