It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.