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
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.
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!
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.
trying fit
Don't do anything to try to fit in.
brother bigs my-big-brother
Without my big brother, I probably literally wouldn't be here.
moose
That isn't the plural of moose. It's moosi.
giving people tape
We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.
want lord rings
I'd love to go visit the 'Lord Of The Rings' set! That's something that we always want to do, but we don't ever have the time.
giving people pieces
Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something.
kids mean thinking
Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.
teacher kids games
The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.
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.
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.