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.

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.

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.

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.

I help those who can help themselves.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

I'm a work in progress.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

I can fall asleep anywhere.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood.