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Girl: I was wondering if you had any tips on how to deal with nerves/stage fright? Every year my school holds a Christmas concert. I've never taken part in it at all before but this year I decided to give it a shot. I have never sang in front if a large crowd before. When I get nervous, which can be from reading out in class to talking to a teacher I am close to, I feel dizzy and get shakes throughout my body. All my friends think I can sing and that I should just go for it.
Mikey: This is a question that is near and dear to me. It may not be a new subject to a lot of our fans in the know, but I too suffer/have suffered from chronic stage fright. Being in a band with a fear of public performing is kinda like being a penguin that's afraid of the cold. It's a problem that I have had as far back into childhood as I can recall. Unfortunately, there's no definitive answer. I have spent the greater part of a decade trying to figure out that riddle, and have talked in great lengths with doctors and therapists about the subject. I would find someone you know and trust and talk to them about it. There is no shame in going to a therapist to talk out your problems either. It doesn't mean you're "crazy". It's really effective to be able to talk to an unbiased person and gain new perspective on your problem. Another great way to conquer your fear is to face it head on. You might find out that you're not scared after all. Enter that X-mas concert and knock 'em dead! You might wonder what you were even scared of to begin with.
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Interviewer: Ever gotten lucky on a beach?
Mikey: I found a $20 bill once.
Interviewer: Would you ever rock a Speedo?
Mikey: If someone put a shotgun to my head.
Interviewer: Ever have a regrettable summer hookup?
Mikey: Regret is a sign of weakness. Oh, and girls have cooties.
Interviewer: What’s your favourite ice-cream truck song?
Mikey: The Godfather theme. Yes, in Jersey, many an ice-cream truck played the Godfather theme.
Interviewer: How do you keep your makeup from running onstage when you get sweaty?
Mikey: I don’t. At the show we played tonight, eyeliner and sweat streamed into my eye and I was partially blinded.
Interviewer: Ever do socks with sandals?
Mikey: You wouldn’t catch my cold dead body with sandals on.
Interviewer: Is there a body part you hide during the summer?
Mikey: All of them.
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Interviewer: With so much talk of death in [your] lyrics I wondered what is happening right now that [you] would like to be dead, or something that is dead that [you'd] like to bring back?
Gerard: Hair crimping needs to go. You know what I’m saying?
Bob: Hair straightening.
Gerard: Hair straightening?
Mikey and Ray: OH!
Gerard: No way, dog! You’d ruin every band out there! Um, hair crimping has to go. I don’t see it very often but when I do it burns my ass.
Bob: Slippers.
Gerard: Yeah, slippers. We’re gonna bring back slippers from the dead.
Mikey: I think Hula-Hoops need to come back. There’s less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.
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“We’ve always tried to switch the way people think about rock bands. That puts a dividing line between people. Are you on our side and you want to be different or are you on that side and you want to throw a football at my head?” — Gerard Way.
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“Ladies, let me hear you holler! If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your tits for backstage passes, I want you to spit right in their fucking face and yell, ‘Fuck you’.” — Gerard Way.
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“You know, everything you do in life, you should take a lesson from, whether it be good or bad. So, um, you just chalk it up to experience and you just learn how to do it better the next time around. Like you said, like you know, we’re loving what we’re doing now.” — Frank Iero.
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Interviewer: You guys [Gerard and Mikey] are brothers?
Gerard: Yes.
Interviewer: You look alike.
Mikey: Really?
Interviewer #2: To a blind person.
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Mikey: I heart coffee.
Frank: I heart WiFi.
Gerard: And I heart The Crow 2: City of Angels.
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