It's not the norm when creators have any protections with regards to creative control. And so it took some time, I think, for the strip to gain enough popularity where I had enough leverage to come in and say, "It has to be done in a certain way or it's not going to be done at all," and then have people willing to put up with that who were ultimately paying for it. You know, for them to be willing to kind of concede those kind of things. It just takes time, you know?

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there's so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I'm dead serious.

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.