For those who aren't familiar with the tragedy, it surrounds the death of a 13-year-old named Hannah Bond who hanged herself in September. British tabloid The Daily Mail later reported that her suicide may have been a result of her "emo" lifestyle, as well as the bands she listens to — My Chemical Romance included.

MCR addressed the tragedy late last month, saying, "We'd like to send our condolences to her family during this time of mourning. Our hearts and thoughts are with them. My Chemical Romance are and always have been vocally anti-violence and anti-suicide. As a band, we have always made it one of our missions through our actions to provide comfort, support and solace to our fans. The message and theme of our album The Black Parade is hope and courage. Our lyrics are about finding the strength to keep living through pain and hard times. The last song on our album states: 'I am not afraid to keep on living,' a sentiment that embodies the band's position on hardships we all face as human beings."

After the statement was issued, MCR fans in the UK showed their support for the band and disgust with the Daily Mail article by protesting in London.

As it turns out, MCR and their fans weren't the only ones who wanted to weigh in on the matter. DeLonge — who of course was previously the frontman for Blink-182 prior to A&A — addressed the situation during an interview on Wednesday with Buzznet.

Buzznet: Do believe in the whole "music saves lives" idea? Do you feel like that places too much responsibility on the musician?

Tom DeLonge: No, I think the musician's one and only responsibility is to consume and digest the world around them and give it back to other people to interpret it however they want. I think half of the formula is that, and half is what the listener does with it. So if it changes their life or puts them in a better spot or worse spot, I think they're getting out of it what they needed to get out of it. I don't think it ever falls entirely on the artist's shoulders. The artist is a conduit for changing somebody's life.

Buzznet: I ask that because a teenager named Hanna Bond committed suicide recently, and the press singled out My Chemical Romance as a "suicide cult." What are your thoughts on that?

DeLonge: The same sort of thing happened to me with Blink, so I can understand what it's like to be a part of something like that. We had a victim of the Columbine shootings take his life with our song on repeat. You kinda go through these situations where you blame yourself — but you can't. You have no idea who these people are. And My Chemical Romance, they spend a lot of time singing about coming together, and there's ingredients of rebellion and angst, but what band doesn't have that when you're young?

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