I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.
I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.
As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
[after discovering sickos in the booths at a strip club] Connor: It's like a scumbag yard sale. Murphy: We should come down here once a week and clean house.
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.
Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.
Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.
I like Comic-Con. It's always nice to talk to people who are fans of 'Children's Hospital.'
I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.
Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in new contexts.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
