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" I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly. "

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" I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts. "

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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" Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life. "

" When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it. "

" After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun. "

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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" I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in. "

" The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. "

" For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it. "

" I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore. "

" Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them. "

" I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do. "

" I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent. "

" I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me. "

" I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see. "

" There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever. "

" Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases. "

" I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes. "

" I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.' "

" I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on. "

" I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends. "

" I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw. "

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" I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23. "

" I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again. "

" The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.' "