I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.