Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

There's such a lack of sex in music.

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade.