Mikey Way
Mikey Way
Michael James "Mikey" Wayis an American musician and is best known as the bassist of the rock band My Chemical Romance until their split in 2013. He is also the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist of rock duo Electric Century...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth10 September 1980
CityKearney, NJ
attractive dress homeless
We're very attractive to them because we dress like homeless people.
attractive dress
We're very attractive to them because we dress likehomeless people.
battery electricity greedy half hoard plane
Were really greedy about the electricity in our iPods. We hoard it. Were like, Yo, Im only on half a f**k battery and I have a plane ride!
talking
It's me and Gerard on the porch, talking about how Gerard's not cool!
break ended hard lived manager near people retail routines stuck
Its hard to break out of Routines there, If I wasn't in this band, I'd probably be stuck doing some retail job. We lived near malls, and that's just what you would do. A lot of people I know ended up as, like, a manager at the Gap.
brother coffee gas looked minute money pot station
Yeah, I had a headache, really bad. I was in a gas station and there was a pot of coffee and I looked at it for about a minute and then my brother (motions at Gerard) got a coffee and he taunted me.
absolutely created good guys kids lied movement pop positive return sick wants
There's absolutely a movement of a return to rock. Sometimes the good guys win. Kids are sick of the (expletive) pop and sick of being lied to. Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.
men he-man mastermind
The mastermind, the man with the plan
song heart years
The interesting thing about a song like 'Bulletproof Heart' - it was [originally] called 'Trans Am' - the interesting thing about the amalgamation of that song was that the song also lived within us, like we all got to live with the song and it was around for about a year before we recorded it again, so the song got to really transform, which you don't really get to do.
years oasis band
Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure, stuff like that. That was a huge part of my teen-years and bands I still listen to right through to this day, but it had a huge bearing on me as a teen and it was some of my favourite music, and is still to this day some of my favourite music.
writing thinking next
We're kinda always writing, so it's like we're always thinking about what's next, so that'd be a yes. We're always constantly wanting to get onto the next thing or the new thing.
festivals sometimes tricky
Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.
kids fans different
Big Day Out is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.
real want-something feelings
Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.