When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

Walking my dogs, playing with my kids - all of that is really good stuff to keep me centered.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

Those that have loved longest love best.