After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

It is better to watch things then to do them.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.