It's hard to be a credible musician as a girl with a decent face. Which sucks. I'm always gonna push to make a record that represents what I like.
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It's important to exercise your artistic muscles for your mental health and for your fulfillment 'cause as an artist, you're a creator. Your fulfillment comes from finishing stuff and creating things that you're proud of.
If you have a power - don't hide it.
Not that I sound anything like her, but I grew up singing like Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion was definitely my favourite artist when I was 12.
I definitely identify with female leads more; I identify with real female leads, people who are flawed and have issues and make mistakes, so that the characters represent what I'm about.
Being a mom makes it harder to find time to write and it gets harder to find time to sit down and do a vocal, because there's a baby behind you crying.
Growing up, I was always blown away by 'Star Trek' and 'Barbarella' and 'Logan's Run.' The retro sci-fi thing.
I love going home to my family, hanging out, and playing video games.
I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back.
Writing something about motherhood, I think that would be pretty cheesy.
I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.
Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.
That's literally been a longtime dream of mine: to create a comic and an accompanying concept record.
I have this fascination with space, but I also have a fascination with the Titanic.
I'm a big fan of Grimes.
A word can change so much depending on how you say it, or how you sing it.
I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.
You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.
I'm not good at talking politics. I'm probably not well-versed enough to speak out, but I do have my opinions and my feelings and frustrations, especially with regards to the environment and sustainability and our lack of taking care of what we have.
I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop. But we did, it was our slow jam.
For me, the biggest gauge for success in a project is people's reaction to it and what they're saying about it and if they're sharing it on social media.
I loved comics for a long time, loved the medium, and I love where comics are going. It's on the forefront of social issues, and there's no production value limit, so you can create an entire world. As long as you can visualize it, you can make it a reality.
It's an added layer of duties and responsibilities, but it takes away from a lot of the arbitrary pressures that I've felt before. I just enjoy every moment more, and that's the beauty of being a mom.
Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.
Around when I was 11, I remember hearing U2's 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.' I remember hearing it and thinking that's what I want to be doing - making something that feels like that.
I have more friends in 'World of Warcraft' than I do in real life!
I've actually steered away from just calling them 'comics.' I just call them books.
As most people do, you have to learn your talent. It doesn't really just come.
I think people act on their emotions without thinking on them and one of our biggest faults as humans is our instinct to do that. I know I've done it. I'm trying to learn how to control that.
I really like my microwave.
Even into a spiritual level I believe that there are dimensions around us that we can't see and forces happening that we can't explain. It's too lame to not think that.
I've been a fan of 'Wonder Woman' as long as I remember knowing who Wonder Woman was. And being able to draw or write 'Wonder Woman' would be amazing.
I've never been this massive artist, but I've always had this really wicked cool fanbase - people that really dive in, know every single B-side, and cosplay characters at our shows.
Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music, was an obvious move for me as an artist.
The beauty of collabs is being able to genre-blend and try different things that you never would get to do.
I think we all struggle with mental health.
I've learned how to be confident and not be nervous in a paralyzing way, and I've learned that it's best not to close yourself off from people, you let people in.
You know, you can't give this unattainable superhero and expect people to identify with them. It's a cool story to read, but I never identified with Wonder Woman, until I read the story like, where she goes blind for a year and ends up in the underworld.
I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.
You have to learn how to deal with curve balls.
I think one of the biggest lessons I continue to learn is having humility and being thankful for what you have because everything's a grind and it doesn't get easier.
I have my DS with me all the time on the road.
I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.
It's a constant struggle in the comic community to be considered a book and to be considered art, but it's just as time-consuming as any other art, and it's just as powerful of a read as any book.
I started as a pretty quiet kid and have had to evolve into a performer.
I can no longer listen to 'The Listening' because it's been done so many times now.
I've been stung by a jellyfish.
I think people end up connecting somehow when they have a lot in common.
I would love to draw for 'Scarlet Witch,' it's a Marvel title.
It just burns my heart that there's such a massive discrepancy in the number of male producers in the industry, versus female producers.
