I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

I've always really loved nature, I did a lot of horseriding as a young girl.

I've always dreamed big.

I want to travel the world.

At the end of the day, there's always going to be younger, prettier girls but I know what I bring to the table.

There is only one GC, so whoever does end up with me in the end is a very lucky person.

To be honest, I don't mind Jason Gardiner, I've always found him amusing.

People just can't believe I'm a big girl and I'm successful.

I'm not apologetic for who I am.

I'll always be an Essex girl at heart but I've matured and I've evolved and with my work I'm in the West End all the time.

Because I was given everything I didn't know the value of money. My dad always bailed me out.

I'm not the Towie girl I once was, I'm not that girl anymore.

I can't go shopping like I did before I was famous. It has to be planned now. I can't walk around a shopping centre. Even when I have four security guards with me, shoppers run towards me. It's fun, but it's difficult when you're trying to get your bits.

People all want to hug me. They want to touch The GC!

I am a very creative person.

You know James Corden - I'm like a version of him but in a girl.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

Everyone out there is growing up too quickly, university does give you responsibility but you're still learning and you have time to go out and have fun.

Any members of the IIluminati, feel free to come on my podcast. I'm not scared of it, I'd like to know more.

I radiate on a different frequency - or you can call it energy - than most. I vibrate at a different energy force.

The reason I know I'm different to other people is I'm awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.

It's nice to play mum sometimes.

I have every day struggles like everyone else.

I'm am really a real person.

GC is a brand now. It's how I make my money to be honest.

The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.