You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

If everyone else is doing something, I have little or no interest in it. If you're known as this guy who can do any kind of sound or voice or whatever, somebody will go, "Do you do Christopher Walken?" "No." "Well, why not?" "Because everybody else in the world does it." My carpenter does Christopher Walken.

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.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

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.

I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world.