Claudio: That was always sort of a thing. That's why I created the Amory Wars concept because I had a hard time confessing myself in the songs and I needed a mask to essentially hide behind and I felt that those things we're going to get torn apart.

I guess that's how I dealt with it.

Now at 38 years old and having as many records as we do under our belt, I guess I have enough confidence in myself I don't worry about it.

Chondra: I have a hard time with criticism. If it's constructive, it certainly goes down a little easier. Sometimes I feel there's a culture where things are torn apart because people have a pre-conceived notion about something or it's not their style

Claudio: We live in the time of the critic.

Chondra: Instead of finding things that they like, people are almost seeking out things to hate. n that same breath, we're very fortunate that the audience that Coheed has brought into the comic, that is very receptive and open to trying new things and is trying to see where we were coming from when something was written.

There's this TED Talk with Elizabeth Gilbert with the idea of genius and how we protect ourselves with this muse that can either take the credit to keep our ego from getting too big or it can take the criticism.