He talked about how hard it was to write an album after ‘The Black Parade’ because nothing was going to top it and people were gonna hate it anyway, no matter what they did.
That difficult time made him start drinking again, which he didn’t talk about a lot.
‘Danger Days’ made things hard for the band.
He had the following to say about that:
“It was tough on all the guys. We scrapped records, spent millions of dollars, and we were touring on this record, and it didn’t feel like the world needed My Chem anymore.
When we were breaking out and fighting, there was the Bush administration, wars for oil, and all this stuff, so it was a good time to be counter culture.
But when ‘Danger Days’ was out, we had Obama, things were going really well, we were making so much progress.
I’m able to read the writing on the wall pretty clearly, and I was like, ‘Nobody really needs us now – I think it’s time to finish.’”
“We all got together recently and it was wonderful – we didn’t even talk about the band or playing shows again.
I don’t know if anything will happen in the future, but what I do know is everyone has a really great life right now.
I think My Chem will always be there for us if we want it, but it adds a layer of stress.”
You can check out the entire interview here.
