I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.

I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.

Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.