I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but I hope never to deal with these kinds of issues in anything more than a covert manner. I'm more interested in figuring out what I think than in pronouncing my views to the world.