The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was - if I'm not getting paid to sell out, I don't want people to think that I'm selling out.

I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.