None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.

With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.