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.

It's very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it's only sonic. Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone's attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

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.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

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

I'm not like a high intellectual.