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Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.
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It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.
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I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.
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All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
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When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.
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A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.
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I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.
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I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.
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I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.
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I can never be on time for anything. I'm always 10 or 15 minutes late.
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I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.
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I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
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The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.
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We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.
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The messenger is not as important as the message.
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Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.
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The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.
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I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it - that last stage - you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them - to see if it’ll affect someone else.
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I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.
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I just wanted to be happy in what I did and I wasn’t for a while and I think everyone finds that thing eventually whether it’s way down the road or.. in some people happens earlier in life and it sounds really weird and it sounds like one of those “oh” moments,when I got to play in this band and did that it’s kinda when I…that time I was happy with what I was doing
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It's OK to be different.
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Be creative. Use your voice, your community.
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'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
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When you do it from the heart, you can do no wrong.