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Q: If you could be a ghost for the day who would you haunt?
Frank: Wow, hmm who would I haunt for the day that’s a really good question, erm…god erm I have an answer but my girlfriend will be really mad but it be Christine Ricci probably.

Q: If you could have any job besides this band what would it be and why?
Frank: Oh I just found out about this actually. This is really cool, that I just found out, but there’s a job that you can have where you design Halloween masks, I want that job! That would be ******** amazing. Honestly if I knew about that job when I was a kid, I might not be here right now.

Q: What famous person would you most like to hang with?
Frank: Oh, there’s so many. Vince Vaughn cause he seems really funny...Oh change mine to Will Farrell that be cool.

Q: If you could have any kind of interlude between sets at a show what would you have?
Frank: If I had a break? Erm probably a cigarette honestly.

Q: A lot of fans think of your image as a fashion statement, how do you feel about people copying the way you dress?
Frank: I think its erm…instead of a fashion statement more of raising a flag and it’s an acceptance thing. That’s what I used to do. I used to go to punk rock shows and get involved because I wouldn’t feel accepted anywhere else, and it sucks that people go to shows now and people have this attitude of ‘oh I’m more punk than you! You don’t belong here you just got into it!’ I think at our shows its less of that and more of everyone’s there because they don’t belong anywhere else. The fact that there’s this fashion statement going on, it’s not a fashion statement it’s a death wish, and it’s showing that we are all together.

Q: As a kid, did you like to give people hell?
Frank: Give people hell, definitely, I was a little b*****d, so yeah definitely!

Q: What do you think of the rock n’ roll ‘jetset’ life – is it the stereotypical image?
Frank: These are very good questions. Erm the epitome of your rock n’ roll lifestyle is awful, it really is. However we don’t live up to that lifestyle at all, we sit backstage and eat eggs and when the shows over we go play video games or read books stuff like that. We do have people in the band who have very addictive personalities and have had demons like that. We choose now to stay away from those things because we feel there’s a higher purpose and if anything gets us off the track of what we’re trying to do that’s basically not for us, as we have so much to say.

Q: Do you still think of yourselves as not being celebrities like mentioned in Our Lady of Sorrows?
Frank: Yes, definitely, no matter what Kerrang might say!

Q: Do you guys get tired of the constant links to vampires due to one song?
Frank: Yes, but they have definitely dwindled so I’m ok with that now.

Q: The lyrics to Headfirst for Halos mentions happy thoughts – so what’s your happy thought?
Frank: New Jersey.

Q: Have you experienced any near death experiences?
Frank: Yes. Erm…trying to think how long ago it was, maybe a couple of months ago. A couple of friends of ours, of mine and ours, I went out with them and we went to the Salvation Army hall and bought these three piece wool suits. Don’t ask why, we got into this boat, like a little row boat and we were in the middle of this lake and the boat tipped over. I thought I was going to die, it was like having four fat people on your back, it was awful, just like hanging onto you, it was terrible. I never want to drown

Q: What would you like to do to the end?
Frank: Play music yeah and being involved in music in any way shape or form. I would really love for this band to go on to the end but every one of us has to die and that’s when this will end too.

Q: What about being in a band makes you not okay?
Frank: Oh the things that have nothing to do with the show. Erm sometimes when you get to a higher level of touring, and your touring all the time, there’s a lot of press and things to do. So sometimes the show becomes an after-thought for people, not the band but like say the band management, the label, stuff like that. They’re like do this, this and this, go here, do this interview and TV show, and oh later there’s the show but that’s not important, but it is important and that’s what makes me not okay.

Q: So have any of MCR had a run-in with the law?
Frank: Yes, very much so!
Gerard: …Well yeah back in the day me and Frank actually. We were coming from practice and like we got swarmed by these big SUV’s like FBI style. What was it [looks at Frank] like the Vice squad or the narcotics unit…they just got us out the car and all these flash lights and they called him nappy. They actually asked if I was a vampire.
Frank: Yeah!
Frank: So I’ve been getting that forever. All I was wearing was blue jeans and a black jacket. I didn’t even have long hair at the time either I didn’t get it at all.

Q: What’s been your best day ever then?
Frank: Oh wow, honestly but this is going to sound clichéd, but there’s been so many just being in this band. Any short time goal I’ve ever set myself has come true. We’ve just been so lucky.

Q: Sunrise or sunset?
Frank: Sunset.

Q: Would you prefer to be bitten by a venomous snake or a constricting snake?
Frank: Constricting snakes don’t bite right, they just crush you to death. So would I rather be bitten or crushed…here’s the thing if you get bitten its happened and its over but if you get crushed it takes longer, but I don’t like getting bitten, that’s not really fun but its quick so I’d say bitten [by a venomous snake]

Q: What’s the most fun you’ve had in a cubicle?
Frank: Fun I’ve had in a cubicle, I haven’t had no fun in a cubicle, none.

Q: What’s the best thing about romance?
Frank: Oh man, everything, everything.

Q:As a kid did cemetery’s freak you out or intrigue you?
Frank: Intrigue me, I liked to go for walks in cemeteries. Something I liked to do, it’s very peaceful.

Q: 3 words that describe My Chemical Romance
Frank: Beautiful, violent, pop.

Q: State your name and what you do in the band?
Frank: Apparently, I’m Frank I play guitar and dance hard.

Q: What are you guys listening to now a days?
Gerard: Same ******** two CD’s me and Frank always listen to.
Frank: Go ahead.
Gerard: I listen to the Dresden Dolls, and Frank listens to…
Frank: The Voice In The Wire, and umm... The Dreds?

Q: What was your worst subject in school?
Gerard: Math, I hate math.
Frank: Uhhh, History.
Gerard: I like history.
Frank: I can’t remember s**t.
Gerard: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Frank: Math, at least you like… I mean you have to like remember like formulas and s**t, but like the numbers are there. And as long as you can do s**t with them….
Gerard: I can’t do s**t with them.
Frank: History, they don’t give you s**t.
Gerard: I got transferred to dummy math in fact. Actually, I failed math so many times that they put me in summer school.
Frank: For math?
Gerard: Yeah, and then I failed again, then they put me in dummy math.
Frank: Oh man.
Gerard: Yeah, I learned how to write checks.
Gerard: And the bad thing about that is that everybody in class, none of them were gonna ever have to write a check, because nobody’s gonna make any ******** money.

Q: If you weren’t in this band do you think that you’d be playing the same style of music if you were in another one?
Frank: I don’t know, like I can't really… I don’t know, I’d like to think that we try to do different styles in like every song and every record so maybe one of those styles I don’t know. It’d be weird.

Q: Who in the band would you say has the shortest attention span?
Gerard & Frank: MIKEY!

Q: Who would you say is the messiest?
Frank: Oh uhh, Mikey.
Gerard: Mikey, yeah. I almost tripped over…actually I didn’t trip over…
Frank: I had to room with Mikey for 2 months.
Gerard: OH YEAH!
Frank: And I refused to do dishes until Mikey would clean something, and he refused to do anything, and stuff started to grow in the sink and in the bathroom and the kitchen and the bedroom and everything.

Q: What are your top three favorite movies?
Frank: Nightmare Before Christmas, Rushmore, and uhhh lalalala...

Q: What are some of your inspirations?
Frank: Musically, Ritchie Havens, Thurston Moore, my mom and uhh Abraham Lincoln.

Q: Okay, if you guys could pick one person or band, dead or alive, to tour with, who would you pick to tour with and why?
Frank: Oh man… Definitely the original Misfits line up because they are just amazing. The Clash would be amazing. The bands that I grew listening to, like Black Flag. Man, if I could tour with Black Flag with Keith Morris singing, like the original line up, that would be amazing. Yeah, bands like that.

Q: If you guys were stranded on a desert island, with no food and nothing to eat, which one of the band members would you eat to survive?
Frank: Wow. O man. It definitely wouldn’t be Mikey, because he’s got nothing. I don’t know. I wouldn’t eat Gerard or Bob because they are just great company, and I wouldn’t eat Toro because he’d probably be the one to figure out a way off the island. So I’d probably have to eat my own leg.

two of the best interviews are on youtube..... the rage interview with my chemical romance and the london paper interview with gerard and frank.... franks little giggle is in it!! how cute!!

Interview date: March 2006
Where?: London
Inerviewers: HMV (about The Black Parade release)
Interviewees: Gerard, Mikey and Ray (Frank was at his mother's and Bob was visiting CHigago {Hometown})

HMV: So, what's your favourite character out of anything?
Mikey: Greard's Lankie Leader Drummer Boy *it looks so cool*!
Gerard: Mikey out of MCR: The Comic Book Series *joke*.
Frank: Darth Vader from Star Wars --
Gerard: Yeah, what is he saying -- I can't understand that Vader bloke half the f*cking time!!