I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.