Musician

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

Having toured a lot really influences some of the decisions you make in the studio - is this part anthemic enough for people to want to sing to it at a show? is this part dynamic enough? Is this drum beat 'arena' enough? You think about it a lot when you are creating, for sure.

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

When I'm at home, I get what I need to get done during the day and reward myself with a little 'WoW' time at night. Some people read a book before they go to bed.

When I had my baby, it really freed my mind. No matter how well you do or how unsuccessful you are, there's still somebody who thinks you're the best in the world.

Around when I was 11, I remember hearing U2's 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.' I remember hearing it and thinking that's what I want to be doing - making something that feels like that.

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

I can't be like, 'This week I'm going to be a musician, and next week I'm going to be a mom.' It has to be a little bit of everything, every day, all of the time.

I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa - whether or not the creator of that music knows.

I don't know what I did with time before I had a kid.

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.

That's literally been a longtime dream of mine: to create a comic and an accompanying concept record.

Pop music is actually a challenging genre. Not only do you have to be artistically expressive, but you also have to do that in a very strict format. I've always liked that challenge, but it's very easy to slip into something non-creative. You just have to stay inspired all the time.

It just burns my heart that there's such a massive discrepancy in the number of male producers in the industry, versus female producers.

It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'

I love going home to my family, hanging out, and playing video games.

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.

There is something empowering about being a female warrior to me.

I sleep in a bunk bed because my studio's under it. It's like a loft bed.

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.