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" I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share. "

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" Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you. "

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People

Yourself

You

" I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year. "

" I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here. "

" 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems. "

" 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. "

" The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial. "

" Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. "

" I love Alfonso Cuaron. "

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I Love

Love

" You should love yourself. "

" The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation. "

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

" I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it. "

" My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me. "

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Most

Focus

" You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other. "

" To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life. "

" People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. "

" My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch. "

" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "

" When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' "

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Scene

Watching

" I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. "

" I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it. "

" I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored. "

" I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things. "

" 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. "

" Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. "

" Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up. "

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Important

" There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. "

" I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me. "

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Some People

People

" 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. "

" Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. "