Gerard Way says continuing MCR left him 'physically and mentally sick'

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has revealed that the band were supposed to end after The Black Parade album, and that the fact that they continued left him "sick, physically and mentally."

In a new interview with Kerrang, Way discussed his burgeoning solo career, which has begun with debut track 'Action Cat', and will soon see him perform at Reading and Leeds festivals.

He also discussed his former band My Chemical Romance, and the fact that he always planned for the band to end after 2006 album The Black Parade. "When the tour basically ended with us conquering the world", he told the site, "we were supposed to ride off into the sunset."

He added: "I got sick physically and mentally because I didn't listen to what my inner self said, which was when Parade was over, that's the end... I never went past the third record because to me the third record was the pinnacle - it was the combination of everything we had learned on one and two but really taken to some crazy extreme."

Way explained that the band didn't end "because it's a lot more complicated than that. Because you get into careers, mortgages, families, crews, people, the machine itself - not to mention expectations of a record label that invested quite a bit in you, that would like more out of you, a fanbase that wants more out of you. So I kept going, against every fibre in my being, I kept going. I went against myself and lost."