Frank Iero tells us which song he's written that he would play forever, if he could only pick one.
Over the years, Frank Iero’s had a pretty storied career, both as the guitarist of My Chemical Romance and as a solo artist. Which is why, during our recent In Conversation event with him, one fan's question got an especially interesting answer: if Frank could only play one song that he wrote for the rest of his life, what would it be?
“Best Friends Forever, I think,” said Frank after a moment’s pause, to the immediate ‘AW!’ of the crowd. “It’s true, though! It’s really special to me. It’s a song that started with my daughters singing to each other, to kind of, like, make each other mad, and we turned it into something that was really great. And they were young when this all started! It’s so amazing to me.
“First off, I’m, like, amazed that I’m this lucky that I get to be their dad,” continued Frank. “It blows my mind. I get to be around them, and experience the people that they are, from day zero to however long I’ll be around. That, to me, is amazing. And I got to see the inherent weirdness -- the inherent weirdness is the best part of human beings. I don’t know if you guys know that, but there’s a moment -- hopefully it lasts longer than a moment -- where they don’t learn to be weird from anyone else. It’s just them! It’s this pure soul strangeness.
“To see that dissipate, to see that go, is so heartbreaking,” he continued. “You know that eventually, they’re going to do something at school, and someone’s going to say, ‘You’re fucking weird,’ and they’re going to think, ‘Oh, shit, I should never do that again.’ But you hope that it lasts forever, because it makes the world such a brighter place. My daughter Lily built a teddy bear for this one little girl because she thought she needed a teddy bear, and I was like, ‘Who ARE you?’
“I play it at every show. Even if it’s not in the set, it’s our soundcheck. It’s my good luck charm.”
We’re not crying, you’re crying.
Watch the rest of our conversation with Frank below:
