[The Black Parade] was a record that was so misconstrued on so many levels. It was really difficult and it took a toll on me. People in Mexico were getting hate-crimed on because they wore black and so anywhere they went, that’s what people would talk about – they weren’t talking about the music. that upset me. They were just talking about mascara and bullshit like that. I realized the world is a wild animal and you can’t change it or control it. You can’t ride it; it’s going to ride you. That’s what I learned. I felt so small.
Gerard Way, Kerrang October 2010
“The Black Parade… was always an album that had exacted a mental duty, from its birth to its death… Suddenly My Chemical Romance, and Gerard in particular, became both the leaders of a tenuous movement they wished to have no part of – emo – and its villains-in-chief. They were blamed for the suicide of teenagers by sensationalist journalists; when other black-clad teenagers were beaten by thugs in Mexico, it was My Chemical Romance who were, somehow, found to be at fault. And it was because The Black Parade had become much bigger than the band and they were shocked and appalled when they could no longer command what they had created.”
(via obifferson)