Quotes from Lights

Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.

You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.

I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.

You have to learn how to deal with curve balls.

It's an added layer of duties and responsibilities, but it takes away from a lot of the arbitrary pressures that I've felt before. I just enjoy every moment more, and that's the beauty of being a mom.

It's nice to pretend we could lead a normal life!

A word can change so much depending on how you say it, or how you sing it.

The comic hobbyists world is so passionate about the details and the lore and the more you get into that, the more interesting it is for you.

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

The beauty of collabs is being able to genre-blend and try different things that you never would get to do.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

I've never been this massive artist, but I've always had this really wicked cool fanbase - people that really dive in, know every single B-side, and cosplay characters at our shows.

Getting to be a musician for ten years is very different from being a musician for a year. You get different stories, and have a different connection with the fans after ten years.

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop. But we did, it was our slow jam.

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music and then rock, punk and heavy metal.

I think one of the biggest lessons I continue to learn is having humility and being thankful for what you have because everything's a grind and it doesn't get easier.

It's funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it's that life changes, but you as a person don't or maybe we adjust, but don't actually change.

When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer songs. If I write 10 songs I believe 80 percent of them are good and gonna be used.

I'm such a geek.

Love is so much more than gender: You fall in love with a person.

I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.

I would love to draw for 'Scarlet Witch,' it's a Marvel title.