John Kricfalusi wanted me to quit the job when he got fired in 1992. But the problem there is that I wasn't his partner. I was a hired gun. And then people badmouth me for 10 years, like a rock in my shoe in that camp. It's a very small but active group of posters, as I've come to find out. But the thing is that I finally got to the point where, "Okay, I get you, I get it you don't like that I did what I did." But the thing was, the whole story was cockeyed. They said I put everybody out of work. No, I didn't. Everybody was going to be out of work if I didn't continue the Ren & Stimpy show.

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.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

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

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

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

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.