“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without ...” — Chester Brown Quote

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who is comfortable being herself, done up or done down.

My mom is spiritual, and she always starves herself in the name of fasting. I don't like it. I always fight with her for not taking care of her health, and say that God has nothing to do with starving. But she knows how much I love her.

I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.