Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.

In a black-and-white world, back in the '50s, were voices from another era. All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men's voices, but they weren't Everyman, it was them.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful. So if there's anybody listening out there with any doubts about what I can do for a show: Try me. The thing is, I wasn't about to stop doing a job.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.